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<\/i>, by David Weber and Timothy Zahn, is the first book in a new sub-series set in David Weber\u2019s Honor Harrington universe.<\/p>\nThe Royal Manticoran Navy was formed shortly after the settling of Manticore, based on six battlecruisers purchased to defend Manticore against pirate attacks. And then the plagues set in; Manticore\u2019s population was decimated and more than decimated, and there were far too few people to maintain the navy. Now, many years later, the RMN is still trying\u2014sort of\u2014to pull itself together. What ships it has consist mostly of cobbled-together repairs, and morale is low. On the plus side, Manticore doesn\u2019t have much of anything that anybody else wants, and not much need to defend itself.<\/p>\n
Enter Travis Long, a young man with a bent for engineering and a desire for the kind of order and discipline he didn\u2019t get growing up. Travis is bright, clever, naive, and somewhat socially inept, and the RMN seems to him like just his kind of place\u2014until he discovers that his desire for order, discipline, and doing everything properly is rather at odds with the navy he finds himself in.<\/p>\n
And then the shooting starts\u2026<\/p>\n
So I read the book, and found it enjoyable enough. It\u2019s got some of the fun of Weber\u2019s early Honorverse novels without the top-heavy, ponderous, let\u2019s-try-to-talk-about-absolutely-everything-going-on-everywhere-ness of Weber\u2019s later<\/i> Honorverse novels. On the other hand I\u2019ve recently been re-reading those early Honorverse novels, and by comparison this book is definitely a quart low: enjoyable, but nothing special.<\/p>\n
In short, if you\u2019re an Honor Harrington fan you\u2019ll want to read this one; and if not, not. Me, I\u2019ll certainly be buying the second book in the series when it comes out; because although it has nothing directly to do with the plot, A Call to Duty<\/i> ends with the imminent discovery of the Manticore Wormhole Nexus. In book II, the Manticorans are going to discover that they have quite a bit<\/i> that others might want, and peace is likely to be a long time coming, and I expect that will be interesting to watch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> A Call to Duty<\/a>