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Imagine you're flying a plane with a variety of missile defenses- electronic countermeasures, chaff, flares. Now imagine your enemy predicts exactly where you're going to be and dumb fires an unguided rocket at that point. You can dodge it, obviously, but if you just try to distract it with countermeasures you will be hit, as it won't even see them. There, a weapon too stupid to fool. Hard skew port.
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Running a government, and especially running a war, basically is endless meetings. It just doesn't make a very compelling space opera
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I give Weber props for naming the slave labor company after a temp agency. I don't know if he did that on purpose but it's perfect
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I thought the thread might like to know: https://twitter.com/HNTurtledove/status/1345216419365941248
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The Starfire series definitely read like novelizations of wargame campaigns. Insurrection isn't very good but I was entertained by the other three Weber co-wrote (though I never got around to the later ones Steve White wrote without Weber). There are a lot of setpieces and a lot of characters he changes the names of and re-uses in his later books.
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GD_American posted:I read 2-3 of the earlier Honor books. Where'd he end up going in the end with everything? Carbon copy tactical genius kids, or is 930 year old Honor Harrington still saving the multiverse? 
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Apparently there are still some more novels following the anti-slavery side plot and anthologies planned. And YA novels set way in the past? If Weber ever revisits the main storyline (the major bad guys were still out there at the end) I expect he would finally do the 20 year time-skip that was in his original vision. But given his health problems, I'd be surprised if he isn't done, aside from "collaboration" novels that just have his name on them.
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I don't think they'll be able to find a 6'3" British-Asian fitness model for the lead
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