Here we are, finishing the Crown of Slaves series with the fourth book: To End in Fire, once again co-authored by David Weber and Eric Flint.

Consistent with the title, this story arc ends with a lot of fire. For the Babylon 5 fans who are also here with us, we can say there’s lot’s of BOOM. It’s another hefty book, coming in at 704 pages if you read the print version, so there’s definitely room for a lot of fire (or boom), and a lot of action overall. The focus of the story is tied to the continued dealing with the Mesan Alignment, with action taking place in several locations including Mesa and Earth. Lots of threads from previous books are pulled together, and we get to watch the workings of the defeated Solarian League’s Constitutional Convention. We also see the establishment of significant governmental reform on Mesa, with some pretty cool time and attention paid to several of our former Ballroom members, including Saburo X.

We continue to see Honor in action as combat ops have ended (paused?) and follow-on operations occur. Oh, and Honor’s mother Alison (one of our favorite characters) gives birth to twins. For those who read it, you know this is only a summary and there’s SO much more going on as well.

Your hosts rated “To End in Fire” with a 4, a 4 and a 4.5 (out of 5), for an overall rating of 4.17 from your hosts.

We hope you never get tired of hearing it because we don’t get tired of saying it: thank you for listening and especially to those of you who take the time to interact with us, like and follow us on social media, and share this podcast with others.

Next, we’re back in the Manticore Ascendant series, looking at the fourth and final book: A Call to Insurrection co-authored by David Weber, Timothy Zahn and Thomas Pope. As with the others in this series/arc, we’re making a final trip back to the early years of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. As we wrap this series up, be sure to grab your copy, invite a friend, and join us again next time.

You can find us, and all our episodes at http://honorverse.net, and email us at honorverse@tpenetwork.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

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What?! A Third Awesome Interview with David Weber!

Other than the timing, a third interview was probably not a surprise to any of you since we openly mentioned having Mr. David Weber join us again after the second interview, as well as the interview with Jane Lindskold and David.

Most of the questions we asked were directly submitted by all of you, our friends who are with us on this journey through the Honorverse. Several of them were summary / roll-up questions based on common themes that many of you have asked.

We don’t think we discussed anything that would constitute true spoilers, but David was very open with us about several things related to the continuation of the Honorverse, including one already-named anthology (Challenges), the mention of another possible anthology, as well as future novels.

Perhaps the most significant thing we talked about was when David gave additional details about something he mentioned in at least one of the previous interviews: how the Honorverse will continue when the day comes to hand the reins (or not) to someone else. We already knew he does intend to pass the torch to some extent. In our discussion he mentioned more specifics related to his plans, to include a later implementation of the time jump he intended if Honor had died as originally planned.

Mr. Weber, once again we owe you Honorverse-sized thank you for the amazing amount of time you’ve given all of us. You’ve also trusted us with all kinds of wonderful information about the amazing world you’ve built, and where it’s going. You certainly could do what many other authors have done and just let us all wait and see, but you’re shining a wonderful light on the future of the Honorverse (and a few other projects)! Again, thank you kind sir.

On the next episode of Honorverse Today, we’ll resume our voyage as we discuss To End in Fire.

As always, we have to thank each of you for listening, and especially those of you who have found the time to send us comments. As you’ve seen, we really do share those with Mr. Weber. We still have a list of questions and comments we haven’t been able to ask him yet, but if you all join in with us at our request, I suspect we can lure him back into the studio for another session.

If you haven’t already done so, consider spreading the word to others you know are already Honor Harrington fans, and even to those who might enjoy the Honorverse!

You can find us, and all our episodes at http://honorverse.net, and email us at honorverse@tpenetwork.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

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It seems time has passed too quickly in terms of the podcast, but here we are already talking about Uncompromising Honor, the 14th novel in the main story arc. For those watching where we are relative to what’s left, you know this is technically the last novel in the main series, but that’s only sort of true. Depending on where you look, you’ll see a fifteenth novel called Toll of Honor. Other places list it as a stand-alone novel, or even the first novel in another related story sequence called the Expanded Honorverse. We’ll sort that out as we read it and as time passes, and also perhaps with some amplification from David Weber. The big point is we still have quite a bit of content ahead of us, plus we understand there are even more books coming (!), so stay strapped in.

Uncompromising Honor brings the two (or three, depending on perspective) major and enduring story arcs together, culminating with the Grand Alliance and the Solarian League staring at each other across the battlefield. The story in this book is huge, has plenty of action and emotion, and several surprises.

As those of you who have been with us from the start know, the story we’ve enjoyed isn’t quite what David Weber imagined early on. Even so, as great authors do, he adjusted the plan and brought us a very satisfying (and significantly large) novel to discuss in this episode. If you’ve read it and didn’t bother with the Afterward, please go back and read it. It’s short and full of information directly from David himself. There are nuggets in there that he touched on during his interviews with us, but this is more concise and focused primarily on the changes from his original plan that brought us what we’ve read up to this point.

Your hosts rated Uncompromising Honor with a trifecta of 5s (out of 5), resulting in an overall rating of 5.

We were able to cover (and I think catch up) with feedback we’ve received. As always, thank you all for listening, but special thanks to those who take the time to further participate in the show through your comments and questions.

Next time we’re going to cover To End in Fire, the fourth and final novel in the Crown of Slaves series.

As always, please grab your copy, invite a friend, and join us again for another voyage through the Honorverse!

You can find us, and all our episodes at http://honorverse.net, and email us at honorverse@tpenetwork.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

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