Garyius2003
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The recent book thread here made me realize that I stopped reading Weber because of the overcrowded conversation fests that are the new HH books and the Religious Planet (by request, "Safehold" series) series, and from feeling ripped off because of his space vampire book.
I went to Baen and purchased an eARC of the new book. There is a set of directions to have it mailed onto your kindle, and it was easy to set up.
The setting is the Star Kingdom, but reset to a much earlier era two generations after the colony switched to nobles instead of shareholders to keep the new immigrants under their thumbs forever.
Haven is a sort of friend a month away at closet. The wormholes have literately just been considered to maybe be present there, but only one Earth corporation knows.
The protagonist (I typed main character here, and went back and changed it, because for the first time since the first HH book Weber made them a protagonist) is a teenager who is ignored by his well off and busy with her business mother. He starts to fall in with the wrong crowd, and is saved by chance from being present at a major crime they pull off, and he enlists.
The hero has a huge stick up his ass and loves rules, but isn't a complete rat. Large parts of the storyline from boot to tech school to his first two ships show him growing up and learning that some rules are important enough to rat about violations, and most aren't.
The back story is that the navy is being cut and starved for funds by a large portion of the nobles, and the party leader has a (coast guard and customs together) force he has more direct control over and wants the equipment and funding moved over to.
There is a space pirate plot and ship disasters, and it all is pretty good.
The hero ends up having a half brother who is a low level Baron, and this gets into politics of funding through his eyes, but it is in no way as boring and drawn out as the HH and Religious Planet series books.
The hero also saves the day at the end but in a way that is realistic given his training and ability.
If I were you I would buy this, even if you stopped buying the HH series.
I went to Baen and purchased an eARC of the new book. There is a set of directions to have it mailed onto your kindle, and it was easy to set up.
The setting is the Star Kingdom, but reset to a much earlier era two generations after the colony switched to nobles instead of shareholders to keep the new immigrants under their thumbs forever.
Haven is a sort of friend a month away at closet. The wormholes have literately just been considered to maybe be present there, but only one Earth corporation knows.
The protagonist (I typed main character here, and went back and changed it, because for the first time since the first HH book Weber made them a protagonist) is a teenager who is ignored by his well off and busy with her business mother. He starts to fall in with the wrong crowd, and is saved by chance from being present at a major crime they pull off, and he enlists.
The hero has a huge stick up his ass and loves rules, but isn't a complete rat. Large parts of the storyline from boot to tech school to his first two ships show him growing up and learning that some rules are important enough to rat about violations, and most aren't.
The back story is that the navy is being cut and starved for funds by a large portion of the nobles, and the party leader has a (coast guard and customs together) force he has more direct control over and wants the equipment and funding moved over to.
There is a space pirate plot and ship disasters, and it all is pretty good.
The hero ends up having a half brother who is a low level Baron, and this gets into politics of funding through his eyes, but it is in no way as boring and drawn out as the HH and Religious Planet series books.
The hero also saves the day at the end but in a way that is realistic given his training and ability.
If I were you I would buy this, even if you stopped buying the HH series.
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