David Weber

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David Weber and his wife, 2007

David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American science fiction and fantasy author . Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he moved to Greenville , South Carolina with his parents a little later .

It was also his parents who - very successfully - encouraged him to read and write. Weber initially worked as a copywriter, trained in a printing company and later helped develop science fiction games. Today he works exclusively as a writer. David Weber is one of the best-selling science fiction writers. His main focus is the military side of fantastic literature, he designs sophisticated strategies and powerful battles. He became internationally known primarily with his series.

Life

His college major was history. He took political science , English literature , English, comparative religion and sociology as minor subjects . His main area of ​​interest is military history . Weber lives in Greenville.

His stories mostly take place in scenarios with well thought-out and rationally explained technologies and societies. Even magical powers are supported and explained in the context of action by rational laws and principles.

Many of his stories deal with military issues and include in the genre of military science fiction . In doing so, he repeatedly incorporates military historical facts and data. He pays special attention to gender roles in the military. He does this by placing main female characters in traditionally male areas and confronting them with challenges for women in the military and politics.

In 1998 Weber received the Phoenix Award for his life's work.

Works

Almost all of Weber's works (exception: the books of the Safehold series published by Tor-Books) are freely available in the full English original text on the Internet - as part of the CD edition of the Baen Free Library . Baen Publishing is also his "regular publisher". The Honor Harrington series has been published in German by Bastei-Lübbe Verlag . Since 2005, the other books have been gradually published by Bastei and Heyne Verlag .

Honor Harrington

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His most successful and most extensive series is about Honor Harrington, whose military, political and social development can now be followed in 20 English or 23 German volumes (some original novels were divided into two books in the translation), four anthologies and two spin-off series can. Weber and this series are often compared to the famous author CS Forester and his seafaring series around Horatio Hornblower .

Dahak

• Vol.1: Mutineers' Moon, 1991
  • Volume 1: The mutineer's moon, Bastei-Lübbe, 2006, ISBN 3-404-23299-2
• Vol 2: Armageddon Inheritance, 1993
  • Volume 2: The Armageddon Legacy, Bastei-Lübbe, 2006, ISBN 3-404-23301-8
• Vol.3: Heirs of Empire, 1996
  • Volume 3: The heirs of the empire, Bastei-Lübbe, 2007, ISBN 3-404-23311-5

The anthology Empire from the Ashes from 2003 combines all three novels in one book.

Swords of anger

• Vol.1: Oath of Swords, 1995
  • Volume 1: The oath, Heyne, 2005, ISBN 3-453-53059-4
• Vol.2: The War God's Own, 1998
  • Volume 2: Der Kriegsgott, Heyne, 2005, ISBN 3-453-52136-6
• Vol.3: Wind Rider's Oath, 2004
  • Volume 3: Der Windreiter, Heyne, 2006, ISBN 3-453-53240-6
  • Volume 4: The Dark Goddess, Heyne, 2006, ISBN 3-453-53257-0

The 2007 reissue of Vol. 1 Oath of Swords also contains the short story Sword Brother, which is based on Wind Rider's Oath .

Marduk (Empire of Man), with John Ringo

• Vol. 1: March Upcountry, 2001
  • Volume 1: The Bronze Battalion, Bastei-Lübbe, 2005, ISBN 3-404-23284-4
• Vol. 2: March to the Sea, 2001
  • Volume 2: The Marduk Mission, Bastei-Lübbe, 2005, ISBN 3-404-23289-5
• Vol. 3: March to the Stars, 2003
  • Volume 3: March to the Stars, Bastei-Lübbe, 2006, ISBN 3-404-23296-8
• Vol. 4: We Few, 2005
  • Volume 4: The Trojan Ship, Bastei-Lübbe, 2007, ISBN 3-404-23314-X

Ring of Fire (Assiti Shards), with Eric Flint (main strand of this cycle)

• Vol. 2: 1633, 2002
• Vol. 3: 1634: The Baltic War, 2007

Starfire (with Steve White )

• Vol. 1: Insurrection, 1990
  • Volume 1: Starfire - Rebellion, Heyne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-52959-5
• Vol. 2: Crusade, 1992
• Vol. 3: In Death Ground, 1997
• Vol. 4: The Shiva Option, 2002

Vol. 2 and 3 were published in 2004 as the anthology The Stars at War, Vol. 1 and 4 in 2005 as the anthology The Stars at War II . Further volumes in the series ( Exodus (2006), Extremis (2011) and Imperative (2016)) were published without Weber's involvement.

Stories from Keith Laumers Bolo universe

• Miles to Go, 1995

• Bolo !, 2004 (short stories)
  • Miles to Go
  • The traitor
  • A time to kill
  • With your shield

• Old Soldiers, 2005

Multiverse (with Linda Evans and Joelle Presby)

• Vol. 1: Hell's Gate, 2006
• Vol. 2: Hell Hath No Fury, 2007
• Vol. 3: The Road to Hell, 2016

Safehold (Nimue Alban)

• Vol. 1: Off Armageddon Reef, Tor-Books, 2007.
  • Volume 1: Operation Arche, Bastei-Lübbe, June 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-23322-9 .
  • Volume 2: The war of the heretics, Bastei-Lübbe, August 2008, ISBN 978-3-404-23324-3 .
• Vol. 2: By Schism Rent Asunder, Tor-Books, July 2008.
  • Volume 3: Code name: Merlin, Bastei-Lübbe, March 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-23331-1 .
  • Volume 4: The Charis fleet, Bastei-Lübbe, April 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-23332-8 .
• Vol. 3: By Heresies Distressed, Tor-Books, July 2009.
  • Volume 5: The Invasion, Bastei-Lübbe, October 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-23348-9 .
  • Volume 6: Caylebs Plan, Bastei-Lübbe, November 2010, ISBN 978-3-404-23349-6 .
• Vol. 4: A Mighty Fortress, Tor-Books, April 2010.
  • Volume 7: The Iron Fortress, Bastei-Lübbe, September 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-20233-1 .
  • Volume 8: House of Lies, Bastei-Lübbe, November 2011, ISBN 978-3-404-20643-8 .
• Vol. 5: How Firm a Foundation, Tor-Books, September 2011.
  • Volume 9: Die Übermacht, Bastei-Lübbe, April 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-20661-2 .
  • Volume 10: The betrayal, Bastei-Lübbe, December 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-20707-7 .
• Vol. 6: Midst Toil and Tribulation, Tor-Books, September 2012.
  • Volume 11: Battle for the Siddarmark , Bastei-Lübbe, January 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-20744-2 .
  • Volume 12: The Warrior Monk , Bastei-Lübbe, March 2014, ISBN 978-3-404-20748-0 .
• Vol. 7: Like a Mighty Army, Tor-Books, February 2014, ISBN 978-0-7653-2156-5 .
  • Volume 13: The Armed Forces , Bastei-Lübbe, March 2015, ISBN 978-3-404-20785-5 .
  • Volume 14: With steam and thunder , Bastei-Lübbe, May 2015, ISBN 978-3-404-20787-9 .
• Vol. 8: Hell's Foundations Quiver, Tor-Books, October 2015, ISBN 978-0-7653-2187-9 .
  • Volume 15: The Forgotten Order , Bastei-Lübbe, April 2017, ISBN 978-3-404-20850-0 .
  • Volume 16: Dangerous revelations , Bastei-Lübbe, September 2017, ISBN 978-3-404-20877-7 .
• Vol. 9: At the Sign of Triumph, Tor-Books, November 2016, ISBN 978-1-4299-5211-8 .
  • Volume 17: Struggle for Safehold , Bastei-Lübbe, September 2019, ISBN 978-3-404-20953-8 .
  • Volume 18: On combat station , Bastei-Lübbe, March 2020, ISBN 978-3-404-20955-2 .
• Vol. 10: Through Fiery Trials , January 2019, ISBN 978-0-7653-2559-4 .

Other novels

• Path of the Fury, 1992
• The Apocalypse Troll, 1999
• Excalibur Alternative, 2002
  • The Excalibur Alternative, Bastei-Lübbe, 2005, ISBN 3-404-23281-X .
• In Fury Born, 2006, the new edition of Path of the Fury was revised and greatly expanded by a prequel
  • Volume 1: Die Kriegerin, Bastei-Lübbe, June 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-23338-0 .
  • Volume 2: The Wrath of the Righteous, Bastei-Lübbe, September 2009, ISBN 978-3-404-23340-3 .
• Out of the Dark, 2010
  • The resistance, Bastei Lübbe, June 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-20673-5 .

Other short stories

• A Certain Talent, 1996
  • in Roger Zelazny (Ed.): The Williamson Effect (14 short stories in tribute to Jack Williamson )

• The Captain from Kirkbean, 1998
  • in Harry Turtledove , Roland J. Green , Martin Harry Greenberg : Alternate Generals (16 Alternate History short stories)

• Sir George and the Dragon , 2001
  • in David Drake (Ed.): Foreign Legions (David Drake's Shared World Anthology)

• Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington, 2002
  • in Warmasters (anthology of three short stories by David Webers, David Drakes and Eric Flints )

• In the Navy, 2004
  • in Ring of Fire (anthology of 15 short stories by various authors on Eric Flint's "Assiti Shards" cycle about the fictional American small town Grantville, which is moved to the middle of Thuringia, in the year 1631)
• Out of the Dark, 2010
  • in Warriors (anthology with short stories by various authors on the topic of "People in War", edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois ; short version of the story, which appears as a solo novel under the same title)

Web links

• Literature by and about David Weber in the catalog of the German National Library
• David Weber in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about David Weber at Open Library
• David Weber's homepage
• Books by David Weber in the CD edition of the Baen Free Library, English