New Releases by David Weber

"Captain Alicia DeVries, Imperial Cadre, has been many things in her life. An Imperial Marine, dedicated to the protection and preservation of the Terran Empire she loves. An Imperial Cadre drop commando, personal liegewoman of Emperor Seamus II, whom she honors and reveres. Hero of the Terran Empire, one of only three living holders of the Banner of Terra. And now, outcast, rogue, pirate ... and madwoman." "From the time she graduated from high school, Alicia DeVries knew what she wanted to do with her life, and she did it well. On planets like Gyangtse, Chengchou, Fuller, and Louvain - in cities like Zhikotse and Shallingsport - she''s put her life on the line in defense of her Empire and Emperor again and again. She''s given her blood, and the lives of men and women closer to her than brothers and sisters." "But her dead have been betrayed in the name of political expediency. The justice they deserved has been denied, and a brokenhearted Alicia DeVries has resigned her commission and retired to the colony world of Mathison with her family to begin a new life." "Yet Alicia is still a warrior, and the pirates who attacked Mathison, tortured and murdered her family, and left her for dead, are about to discover just how big a mistake they made." "Imperial Intelligence can''t find them. The Imperial Fleet can''t catch them. Local defenses can''t stop them. But Alicia has stolen an imperial A1 starship from the bleeding edge of technology and set out to teach them what vengeance truly is." "Her fellow veterans think she''s gone mad, the Fleet has shoot-on-sight orders, and the "pirates" have allies at the highest levels of the Imperial government. But Alicia DeVries has two allies of her own. Allies no one knows about. Allies as implacable as she is: a self-aware computer, and a creature from the mists of Old Earth''s most ancient legends."--BOOK JACKET.

Honor Harrington has been called to command Eighth Fleet against the Republic of Haven, but when she discovers the Star Kingdom is badly outnumbered by the Republic''s fleet, the cost of victory will be agonizingly high.

The sole survivors of the Dinochrome Brigade''s 39th Battalion--Captain Maneka Trevor and Bolo known as Lazarus--are all that stand between a deperate, secret colony of humanity and destruction of the human race.

STUDENTS OF HONOR . . . The Star Kingdom of Manticore is once again at war with the Republic of Haven after a stunning sneak attack. The graduating class from Saganami Island, the Royal Manticoran Navy''s academy, are going straight from the classroom to the blazing reality of all-out war. Except for the midshipmen assigned to the heavy cruiser HMS Hexapuma, that is. They''re being assigned to the Talbott Cluster, an out of the way backwater, far from the battle front. The most they can look forward to is the capture of the occasional pirate cruiser and the boring duty of supporting the Cluster''s peaceful integration with the Star Kingdom at the freely expressed will of eighty percent of the Cluster''s citizens. With a captain who may have seen too much of war and a station commander who isn''t precisely noted for his brilliant and insightful command style, it isn''t exactly what the students of Honor Harrington, the "Salamander," expected. But things aren''t as simple ¾ or tranquil ¾ as they appear. The "pirates" they encounter aren''t what they seem, and the "peaceful integration" they expected turns into something very different. A powerful alliance of corrupt Solarian League bureaucrats and ruthless interstellar corporations is determined to prevent the Cluster''s annexation by the Star Kingdom . . . by any means necessary. Pirates, terrorists, genetic slavers, smuggled weapons, long-standing personal hatreds, and a vicious alliance of corporate greed, bureaucratic arrogance, and a corrupt local star nation with a powerful fleet, are all coming together, and only Hexapuma, her war-weary captain, and Honor Harrington''s students stand in the path. They have only one thing to support and guide them: the tradition of Saganami. The tradition that sometimes a Queen''s officer''s duty is to face impossible odds . . . and die fighting. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Collected stories from the "Honorverse" featuring Dame Honor Harrington including stories by David Weber, John Ringo, Eric Flint, Jane Lindskold and Timothy Zahn.

An ancient alien menace threatens in this hardcover volume which collects for the first time Weber''s epic space adventure trilogy--"Mutineer''s Moon, The Armageddon Inheritance" and "Heirs of Empire."

"And, just to put the icing on the cake, the radical freed slave organization, the Audubon Ballroom, is also on the scene - led by its notorious and ruthless assassin, Jeremy X."--BOOK JACKET.

Another Sunny Day on Marduk Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock has had a really bad year. Bad enough to be the spoiled rotten fop of a prince no one wanted or trusted. Worse to be sent off on a meaningless diplomatic mission, simply to get you out from underfoot, with a bodyguard of Marines who loathe and despise you. Worse yet to be assumed dead and marooned for almost a year on a hell-hole planet while you and those same Marines fight your way through carnivorous beasts, murderous natives, and perpetual rain to the only starport. . . which is controlled by the Empire''s worst enemies. Worst of all to have discovered that you were born to be a warrior prince. One whose bodyguards have learned the same lesson. And one haunted by the deaths of almost a hundred of your Marines... for what you know now was an unnecessary exercise in political expediency. A warrior prince who wants to have a few choice words with your Lady Mother, the Empress of Man. But to have them, you, your surviving Marines, and your Mardukan allies must cross a demon-haunted ocean, face a civilization that is "civilized" in name alone and "barbarians" who may not be exactly what they seem, and once again battle against impossible odds. All so that you can attempt to somehow seize a heavily defended spaceport and hijack a starship to take you home. Yet what neither Roger, nor the Marines, nor his allies know is that the battle to leave Marduk is only the beginning. And that words with Roger''s mother will be hard to come by. But that''s all right. Because what the Galaxy doesn''t know is that it''s about to receive a fresh proof of an old truism: You don''t mess with a MacClintock. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Honor Harrington faces a new set of adventures as she becomes embroiled in an interstellar war that could destroy the Manticoran Alliance, the Republic of Haven, and the Andermani Empire.

Science fiction roman.

Hurtled back in time into the Thirty Years'' War by an unknown force, Mike Stearns and his fellow West Virginia coal miners join forces with the king of Sweden to take on the scheming Cardinal Richelieu.

Banking on a short, victorious war to replenish their depleted treasury, the ruling class of the People''s Republic of Haven do not count on coming up against Captain Honor Harrington and the Royal Manticoran Navy.

Comprehensive Teacher''s Guide available.

Three Masters of Military Science Fiction Three Great Science Fiction Series: Honor Harrinqton Hammer''s Slammers Belisarius Three Short Novels in One Volume Before she saved the galaxy, she was "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington"¾ New York Times bestselling author David Weber reveals how Honor Harrington''s long and brilliant career began with an encounter with "pirates" who turned out to be much more than they seemed.... Another day, another planet at war. But in David Drake''s "Choosing Sides," Lieutenant Huber stepped off the starship right into an ambush. The attackers didn''t survive, but neither did far too many of Huber''s troops¾and Slammers aren''t supposed to get caught in ambushes. Now, to redeem himself, Huber is being sent on a special mission that may be his last. But even so, the enemy will learn the cost of killing even a single one of Colonel Hammer''s Slammers. . . . If the enemy thought General Belisarius was tough, wait until they meet the wife of one of his soldiers in Eric Flint''s "Island." She was wed just before her husband left with Belisarius to fight an evil from beyond time. Now her husband is wounded, and she is going to travel a thousand miles to reach his side¾and few who get in her way will live to regret it. ... At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

DEFEAT WAS NOT AN OPTION The war wasn''t going well. The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. They couldn''t be reasoned with, or even talked to, because no one had the least idea of how to communicate with a telepathic species with no recognizable language . . . and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo. No one knew how large their civilization¾if it could be called a "civilization"¾actually was, or how it was organized, but the huge fleets they threw against their opponents suggested that it was enormous. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm, united in desperate self-defense, have been driven to the wall. Billions of their civilians have been slaughtered. Their most powerful offensive operation has ended in shattering defeat and the deaths of their most experienced and revered military commanders. The edge in technology with which they began the war is eroding out from under them and whatever they do, the Bugs just keep coming. But the warriors of the Grand Alliance know what stands behind them and they will surrender no more civilians to the oncoming juggernaut. They will die first . . . and they will also reactivate General Directive 18, however horrible it may be. Because when the only possible outcomes are victory or racial extermination, only one option is acceptable. The Shiva Option At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

This novel is based on a much shorter version published in David Drake''s "Foreign Legions".

Prince Roger MacClintock is heading for a ceremonial appearance when his space ship crashes, stranding him and his guardian Royal Marines on a jungle planet held by enemy forces. To survive, they must trek to the planet''s only spaceport, and a spoiled prince must learn to be a man. This is the first volume in a new series by the bestselling author of the Honor Harrington adventures.

SOME DAYS IT JUST DOESN''T PAY TO GET OUT OF YOUR SLEEPING BAG. The successor to March Upcountry It wasn''t so much that Prince Roger and his surviving remnant of elite bodyguards are marooned on a barbarian planet. Or that they have been on continuous operations for so long they are getting shocky. Or that they still have half a planet to cross. Or that they are basically out of ammunition for their plasma and bead rifles and just about out of cash. Sure, those are all problems, but they''re not the real problem. No, the problem is Roger is in love. With one of his bodyguards. And the romance is not going well. Damnbeast Sure. Vampiric moths Okay. Screaming waves of barbarians No problem. But when you have Nimashet Despreaux and Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Chiang MacClintock at sword''s point, that''s real danger. And it''s just the beginning. To get to the distant port that is their only way off the planet, they''ll be forced to battle enraged monsters, displaced mercenaries, religious fanatics and a barbarian horde to shame the Huns. Along the way they''ll have to recreate the Reformation, the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution. And do it all in a context their four-armed, horned, grizzly-bear sized native allies can handle. It will strain all their experience and knowledge, as the most elite, the most multitalented and above all the toughest bodyguards in human space. But the really hard part will be keeping Roger and Nimashet from killing each other. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Inter-related stories of Lady Dame Honor Harrington, the alien treecats, Eric Flint, Anton Zilwicki, Esther McQueen and Oscar Saint-Just.

In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction! The core of his work is Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now Weber invites you to join him and his invitees as they explore Honor''s universe. The Host and His Guests: David Weber himself is on board, first telling how young Honor Harrington and her treecat Nimitz faced the impossible task of rescuing the victims of an avalanche in a sub-zero blizzard, then revealing a chapter in the history of the telepathic treecats when a young human who bonded with a treecat was a Very Important Person. Specifically, she was a Manticoran crown princess and the heir to the throne of the empire.... Roland Green offers a hard-hitting account of what happened when Manticore and the People''s Republic of Haven went eyeball-to-eyeball over a strategically vital planet.... Linda Evans looks at life among the treecats, before Honor.. .. Jane Lindskold tells how Honor''s monarch, Elizabeth III, had to learn the hard way what monarchy is all about.... At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). ". .. something for every taste in Weber''s fandom .. . intriguing background glimpses of Honor''s¾and Nimitz''s¾worlds." ¾Publishers Weekly "Recommended." ¾Library Journal "Heartwarming and insightful..." ¾VOYA

RIGHT WOMAN, WRONG PLACE It''s hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards war as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That''s why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the so-called "Republic" of Haven--and the planet Grayson is just the right strategic place to make a very good ally indeed. But Her Majesty''s Foreign Office had overlooked a "minor cultural difference" when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet Grayson are without rank or rights; Honor''s very presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet. At first Honor doesn''t take it personally; where she comes from gender discrimination is barely a historical memory, right up there in significance to fear of the left-handed. But in time such treatment as she receives from the Graysonites does become wearing, and Honor would withdraw if she could--but then Grayson''s fratricidal sister planet attacks without warning and she must stay and prevail, not just for Honor''s honor, but for her sovereign''s, for--THE HONOR OF THE QUEEN. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "Old-fashioned space opera is alive and well [in] David Weber''s The Honor of the Queen. . . ." ¾Science Fiction Age "The Honor of the Queen . . . is worth shouting about. . . . I want more!" ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "In terms of space combat, I think David Weber may be the best writer around . . . a top-notch read." ¾FosFax

REPORTS OF MY DEATH HAVE BEEN GREATLY EXAGGERATED . . . The People''s Republic of Haven made a tiny mistake when it announced the execution of Honor Harrington. It seemed safe enough. After all, they knew she was already dead. Unfortunately, they were wrong. Now Honor has escaped from the prison planet called Hell and returned to the Manticoran Alliance with a few friends. Almost half a million of them, to be precise . . . including some who know what really happened when the Committee of Public Safety seized power in the PRH. Honor''s return from the dead comes at a critical time, providing a huge, much-needed lift for the Allies'' morale, for the war is rapidly entering a decisive phase. Both sides believe that victory lies within their grasp at last, but dangers no one could foresee await them both. New weapons, new strategies, new tactics, spies, diplomacy, and assassination. ... All are coming into deadly focus, and Honor Harrington, the woman the newsies call "the Salamander," once more finds herself at the heart of them all. But this time, the furnace may be too furious for even a salamander to survive. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn''t mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible aerobatics were bad enough¾but then they started shooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within line-of-sight. Richard Ashton thought he was just a ringside observer to these now over-the-horizon events. Until the crippled alien lifeboat came drifting down and homed in on his sailboat; suddenly he has his hands full of an unconscious, critically wounded and impossibly human alien warrior who also happens to be a gorgeous female. That''s when things got interesting. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). "... a particular delight, offering nonstop action that''s both well executed and emotionally satisfying." ¾Publishers Weekly "It''s a rollicking fun tale that''s impossible to put down." ¾Philadelphia Weekly Press "... the best work (Weber] has done ... the rewards are ample ... recommended...." ¾Starlog

HONOR BETRAYED The People''s Republic of Haven''s sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticore has domestic problems of its own, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington. Now, trapped at the core of a political crisis she never sought, betrayed by an old and vicious enemy she''d thought vanquished forever, she stands alone. She must fight for justice on a battlefield she never trained for in a private war that offers just two choices: death . . . or a "victory" that can end only in dishonor and the loss of all she loves. *** David Weber is the new Big Name in science fiction, and his dauntless Honor Harrington has conquered not only the enemy but the hearts of thousands of readers everywhere, who have been relentlessly demanding Honor''s exploits in a more permanent form. And we''re happy to oblige. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

BACK FROM HELL For eight bloody years, the Star Kingdom of Manticore and its allies have taken the war to the vastly more powerful People''s Republic of Haven, and Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of that war. But now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy, turned over to the forces of State Security ... and executed on the interstellar network''s nightly news. The Manticoran Alliance is stunned and infuriated by Honor''s death and grimly resolved to avenge it. Yet their military is over-extended and the People''s Republic is poised to take (he offensive once more, this time with a new strategy, new weapons, a new command team, and a whole new determination to win. The war is about to enter a phase of unprecedented ferocity . . . and the Alliance is on the short end of the stick. But even as powerful Peep fleets hurtle towards their objectives, neither they nor the Alliance are aware of events occurring on a distant, isolated, inescapable prison planet called Hell. For what no one knows, not even State Security, is that Honor Harrington is not dead. She and a handful of her people are trapped on Hell, and determined to disprove the Peep boast that no one can ever escape it. Honor Harrington is going home, and taking her people with her... even if she has to conquer Hell to do it. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

A sword-and-sorcery novel on a war between gods. It features Bahznell Bahnakson, a seven-foot giant who leads the forces of the good god, Tomanak, against the evil god, Demon Breath.

MUTINY For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth. Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak''s sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest. At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death In the end, the only political systems that seem to work are those based on freedom. The Inner World leaders of the Terran Federation seem to have forgotten this simple truth. After fighting the Khanate¾with the Fringe Worlds to supply the raw material and the fighting men¾the Inner Worlds found it hard to give up the powers they had seized during the war. So they decided not to¾rather than allow the rapidly expanding Fringe Worlds representation in the Federation, they are inviting the Khanate in, to keep the colonial upstarts in their place. The Fringers have only one answer to that: INSURRECTION At the publisher''s request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

While the Imperial forces are busy searching for planet-wrecking pirates, Alicia turns pirate herself and steals a cutting-edge AI ship from the empire in order to begin her vendetta.