Challenges (Honor Harrington - Worlds of Honor Book 8)

THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE STAR KINGDOM OF DAVID WEBER’S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE In Honor Harrington’s day the Star Kingdom of Manticore is the wealthiest star nation on a per capita basis in the entire galaxy. It is home to magnificent cities. Its planets’ oceans and seas—and skies—are open to its people yet they have maintained the beauty and the magnificence of their natural habitats. But that was not always true. Pioneers especially interstellar pioneers must be tough smart and self-reliant and the people who built the Star Kingdom knew that. They prepared carefully for their enormous voyage incorporated every measure they could think of and even so their new worlds did their best to kill them all. They very nearly succeeded as the Plague Years pushed the human interlopers to the very brink of survival forcing them to grow and