More Than Honor

More Than Honor, David Weber, David Drake and S.M. Stirling (Baen Books, 1998, ISBN 978-0-671-87857-3, cover by David Mattingly).

A collection of shorter works set in Weber's Honor Harrington series. For this one Baen Books recruited Weber and two folks that have collaborated with him on several occasions, David Drake and S.M. Stirling.

A Beautiful Friendship (David Weber): Details the first "bonding" between the treecats and humans. The story employs one stylistic tool that I've noticed a lot in science fiction: aliens or primitives (or alien primitives) are written from a somewhat "childish" point-of-view. Who's to say that primitives did not have as rich a thought process as us. Maybe we would be seen as the primitives...

Made up of: A Beautiful Friendship (David Weber); A Grand Tour (David Drake); A Whiff of Grapeshot (S.M. Stirling); The Universe of Honor Harrington (David Weber).

Counts as one entry in the 2007 Year in Shorts.

Part of the 2008 Year in Shorts.