One of the rarities of the science fiction genre is having a strong female character. Not just male traits wrapped up in a feminine guise, but a truly female character that can stand on her own. This series has it in spades in the form of one Honor Harrington. The story deliberately tracks the French Revolution as re-written in the form of a space opera so the story and characters are treat for anyone who’s a history lover.
Notable Quotes:
“The bigger the lie, apparently, the more likely the uninformed were to accept it, simply because they couldn't believe any government would tell such an absurd story unless it were true.”
― David Weber, On Basilisk Station“If one of her officers needed reprimanding, she would attend to it in private, just as she made it a point to deliver praise in public.”
― David Weber, On Basilisk Station“That thought let her banish the grin at last, because if independent command was what every good officer craved, a captain all alone in the big dark had no one to appeal to. No one to take the credit or share the blame, for she was all alone, the final arbiter of her ship's fate and the direct, personal representative of her queen and kingdom, and if she failed that trust no power in the galaxy could save her.”
― David Weber, On Basilisk Station“But Haven had become a threat. After almost two T-centuries of deficit spending to shore up an increasingly insolvent welfare state, Haven had decided it had no choice but to turn conquistador to acquire the resources it needed to support its citizens in the style to which they had become accustomed, and the People's Navy had proven its capacity to do just that over the course of the last five decades.”
― David Weber, On Basilisk Station