Book Series overview: David Weber's "Honor Harrington" universe book reviews.
This page is an index page and overview for all the books of the "Honor Harrington" science fiction universe, or the "Honorverse." It will be updated as new Honorverse books are published and the plan is to put up reviews for all 40+ books in the series, which will be linked to here. This is a set of military and espionage science fiction, currently as of December 2025 containing more than forty books, set in a future universe in which mankind began to dispersed over much of the galaxy, starting in 2103 AD. The main stories are set about two thousand years in the future, with two prequel series set about 400 years before, in what by our calendar will be the thirty-seventh century (the earliest book in the first Prequel series, "A beautiful Friendship," is set 1518 years after the diaspora, or in 3621 AD/CE.) The series has sometimes been described as "Ms Hornblower in space" because they contain some very strong and obviously intentional similari...
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However, William Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in The Original Series, has tweeted this response on X:
"Whose bright idea was this?
Definitely a SWs fan put this together.
Leia as science? 😳 (don’t make me laugh.) Put her at communications.
Luke shouldn’t even be on the bridge especially piloting.😱 put him in hydroponics raising Geraniums. 😏
Put the trash can bot at the helm; that’s what it did best.
Get Goldy to be ensign.
Obi should be the science officer.
Han as captain‽- meh!
The Wookiee seems the only one that is correctly placed."