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On Basilisk Station

By Weber, David

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Book Id: WPLBN0000635958
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Reproduction Date: 2004

Title: On Basilisk Station  
Author: Weber, David
Volume: Honor Harrington Series
Language: English
Subject: Science fiction, Political Fiction, Pulp literature
Collections: Science Fiction Collection, Baen Library Collection
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Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises

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Description: Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Summary
Summary: Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system. But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad.

Excerpt
Excerpt: Prologue to c. S. Forester, with thanks for hours of enjoyment, years of inspiration, and a lifetime of admiration. The green eyes blinked, and four of the treecat's six limbs reached out to grip her wrist in feather-gentle hand-paws. She chuckled again, pulling back to initiate a playful tussle, and the treecat uncoiled to its full sixty-five centimeters (discounting its tail) and buried its true-feet in her midriff with the deep, buzzing hum of its purr. The hand-paws tightened their grip, but the murderous claws—a full centimeter of curved, knife-sharp ivory—were sheathed. Honor had once seen similar claws used to rip apart the face of a human foolish enough to threaten a treecat's companion, but she felt no concern. Except in self-defense (or Honor's defense) Nimitz would no more hurt a human being than turn vegetarian, and treecats never made mistakes in that respect.

 
 



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