Call to Arms

Informationen zum Autor With more than eight million copies of his books in print and 33 titles on the  New York Times  bestseller list,  David Weber  is a science fiction powerhouse. In the vastly popular Honor Harrington series, the spirit of C.S. Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s  Master and Commander  lives on—into the galactic future. Books in the Honor Harrington and Honorverse series have appeared on 21 bestseller lists, including  The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times , and  USA Today.  Additional Honorverse collaborations include the spin-off miniseries Manticore Ascendant with  New York Times  best-selling author, Timothy Zahn; and with Eric Flint,  Crown of Slaves  and  Cauldron of Ghosts  contribute to his illustrious list of  New York Times  and international bestseller lists. Best known for his spirited, modern-minded space operas, Weber is also the creator of the Oath of Swords fantasy series and the Dahak saga, a science fiction and fantasy hybrid. Weber has also engaged in a steady stream of best-selling collaborations: the Starfire Series with Steve White; The Empire of Man Series with John Ringo; the Multiverse Series with Linda Evans and Joelle Presby; and the Ring of Fire Series with Eric Flint.            David Weber makes his home in South Carolina with his wife and children. Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award winner and the author of the New York Times #1 bestseller,  Heir to the Empire , as well as the best-selling Star Wars: Thrawn series of novels. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. in physics from Michigan State University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first story to Analog in 1978 and immediately attracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real, cutting-edge science. Baen published his popular Cobra trilogy in one volume. His other popular series include the Conqueror and Dragonback novels. With David Weber and Thomas Pope, he is the author of novels  A Call to Duty, A Call to Arms, A Call to Vengeance, and A Call to Insurrection . Zahn has written more than 50 novels, including the recent Cobra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor .Thomas Pope is a founder of BuNine, a collection of professionals assisting David Weber in defining and documenting the Honorverse. Tom served as lead editor for  House of Steel  and is collaborating with David Weber and Timothy Zahn on a new series set in the early days of the Manticoran Navy. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, two children, and a constantly growing menagerie of pets. Klappentext From multiple New York Times best selling author David Weber and #1 New York Times best selling author Timothy Zahn. NEW ENTRY IN BEST-SELLING SERIES. Book #2 in the Manticore Ascendant series, set in David Weber's Honorverse.Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately, he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart. That talent has stood him—and the Star Kingdom—in good stead in the past, and it’s one reason he’s now a “mustang,” an ex-enlisted man who’s been given a commission as a King’s officer.  The bad news is that two of the best ways of making enemies ever invented are insisting on enforcing the rules . . . and thinking outside them when other people don’t. Travis learned that lesson the hard way as a young volunteer in basic training, and he knows that if he could just keep his head down, turn a blind eye to violations of the rules, and avoid stepping on senior officers’ toes, he’d do just fine. But the one rule Travis Long absolutely can’t break is the one that says an officer in the Royal Navy d...

Product details

• Authors: Frank Cho, Thomas Pope, David Weber, David Zahn Weber, Timothy Zahn, Timothy Weber Zahn
• Publisher: Baen Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781476780856
• ISBN: 978-1-4767-8085-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Manticore Ascendant; Manticore Ascendant
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy