The families who rule the People's Republic of Haven need a short, victorious war to calm the Proles and defuse any threat of civil war. In their way stands a kingdom that has always backed down before... but Honor Harrington wasn't involved...
After the first flowering of the Terran Empire, which has grown increasingly decadent and corrupt, other civilizations in the galaxy threaten to take over the Terran's worlds. In this scenario steps the debonair, tough and pessimistic Dominic...
The Polity is under attack from a melded AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence.
When one of Erebuss wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world...
The discovery of stroon, a drug that confers near immortality on humans, has made Old North Australia rich, so rich that, when Rod McBan has to flee the planet because someone wants him dead, he buys the Earth.
Cordwainer Smith is pen name...
From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are...
Hugo Best Short Story winner (1967).
Asimov Comments on Neutron Star
For the last dozen years or so, what we might call “hard science fiction” has receded somewhat into the background. By hard...
"Spaceships in thousands, and they're attacking us! They've come from somewhere toward our galaxy — have come out of intergalactic space itself to attack our universe!"
The interstellar Patrol, that fabulous fleet manned by all the assorted...
This appendix sketches in some of the salient points of the galaxy into which Honor was born… and which she, willingly or not, was to play a major part in changing...