Honor Harringtonová

ten seznam je hustej :D

ISS bude Hefaistos a z Shuttlů se najednou stanou Pinasy viď :D

Evidentně se tu děje něco čemu nerozumím :D  ;D ;D ;D

Náhoná myšlenka: Avatry sou děsně malý :P :P Nešlo by 100 x 100 px místo 65 x 65 ???

si šplhám, no :-)

hele kluci, já se nemůžu dostat do baen fora , už jsem si udělala 3 loginy a nikdy mě to nepustí, nemůžu plnit své zpravodajské povinnosti  :-(
kdo tam chodíte, pls nemohl byste mi někdo udělat nějaký login a aktivovat ho? Třeba jezi ? heslo mi pošlete přes pm.

nee, včera jsem to zkoušela a spadla jim aplikace :-(

tak pls něco vymysli  ;D

Skvělý úlovek! Tohle mi uniklo :).

A jste si jistí, že ji bude chtít prodat? Ovšem mít svého praprapra...praNimitze by fakt stálo za to ;D.
Btw.: kdo připravoval program na FF? Kdyby program o Honorverse byl aspoň o víkendu, tak bych se určitě přijel podívat...

Program na FF dela Vaclav Pravda. Program linie Klasicon dela Ertai a program podlinie HH delam ja (celych sest prednasek). Bohuzel rozmisteni linii se planuje mesice dopredu a na to jsem moc malej pan, abych to ovlivnil.

No, jak se to vezme. Ono se pocita s tim, ze na FF si lidi berou volno, takze dobrej program je porad. :-)

Pokud se nekdy rozhoupou k natoceni HH filmu/serialu, tak dulezitost i zajem nepochybne vzroste. Lidi jsou liny cist...

njn. LOTRa jsem barbarsky necetl. Me odradil Hobit, dostal jsem se do pulky a nejak me to nebavilo. Vim, ze LOTR neni Hobit, ale hold prvni dojem se prekonava tezko. :-)

Na strankach Hollywoodu je napsane jmeno producenta. To je tak cely

Kdysi se spekulovalo, ze by to byl serial, ktery by pokryval dej od Bazilisku po Ozveny cti. Bylo by to rozdeleny na pet sezon a navazovalo by to na sebe. Jako Babylon 5. Ale to slo k ledu. :-(

A neni tu nějaká informovaná duše, co by věděla jak to bude s Honorverse Online Game?
Vzhledem k tomu že na podzim to údajně má bejt hotový a stránky jsou pořád stejný tak se bojim že to dopadne jako Duke Nukem Forever  ;D

Právě v jedné z dnešních diskusí se objevil MWW a řekl, že podepsal smlouvu na 4 další knížky ze Safeholdu. A že celá serie je otevřená stejně jako Honorversum, že sice on ví kam by to mělo směřovat, ale neví kolik k tomu bude potřebovat knížek.
No paráda, jestli to s ním za deset let sekne a nebude to hotovo, tak přísahám, že se naučím černou magii a udělám z něho prvního zombie-spisovatele. ;)

Subject: Re: Another query for David Weber - Why sign language
Group: Honorverse
Author: davidweber
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:27:29 GMT
Local: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:27:29 -0400

I suspect you might want to go back and reconsider your basic postulates, there.

I am accounted a fairly fast typist -- 95-wpm clean, about 115-wpm fast and dirty. (I am also one of the world's last surviving trained linotype operators, which is one reason I beat keyboards to death, but that's another story.) After I reduced my wrist to paste about eight years ago (2 plates, 12 screws, six or seven pieces of wire, arthritis and bone spurs), my ability to sustain typing at any sort of speed for more than about 45 minutes at a time is basically kaput, however, so I have shifted to voice-activated software, and I can dictate at up to 200-wpm uising it. In fact, I've gone even faster than that, although eventually I have to wait at the end of a convenient sentence somewhere for what's in the buffer to reach the software and for the document to catch up with me.

I can't conceive of someone who can type faster than he can speak, and I've been around some darned fast typists -- like my mom, who typed so fast that the ball on her old selectric sometimes didn't have time to recover between keystrokes and just hung there shivering in a bad case of electronic ague.

In fact, although I didn't mention it in response to the specific questions up-thread, speed is, indeed, one reason why even when/if the 'cats do learn to read & write, they may well continue to prefer signing to vocoders and keyboards, at least with people who spend a lot of time around them. And the people who spend that time around them will probably also prefer signing on the 'cats' part because of the bandwidth differences. Unless someone comes up with some sort of direct neural linkage (which I have deliberately eschewed in the Honorverse so far because I wanted it to be significantly "different" from the Muntineers' Moon and Path of the Fury universes' technology), it's unlikely that anyone will ever come up with any treecat-managable physical means of inputting for a vocoder and/or text messaging which is faster than signing.

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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:16:47 GMT Tarl Neustaedter wrote:
wastral2 wrote:
Because you can sign about 100x faster than you can type. 

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That would be very surprising. I can type faster than I can talk. Signing a factor of 100 faster than that would be well-nigh astonishing.

Jo, to jsem cetl. Taky me to prekvapilo. (sam se povazuji za rychleho pisatele, ale nedokazu psat rychle prilis dlouho - mozek rukam nestaci. :D )

Dotaz trapneho neznalka: Co je "linotype"? Z tohohle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine Moc moudrej nejsem. I kdyz se priznam, ze jsem to cely necetl :-)

This is from Baen.com and from David Weber himself:

***

David Weber on an Honor Harrington Mini-Series

Someone told me you guys were discussing this topic(s), so I thought I'd drop in.

First, don't EVEN get me started on ST. We don'r have that much time or bandwidth.

On the HH front, however, what's actually being contemplated is a regular series, not a mini-series.

I've seen the first draft of the proposed 2-hour pilot, and while I have some minor problems with it, I am quite impressed overall. The senior script-writer show-runner of the crew working on this project (on spec, at this point) is a Royal Navy veteran with experience as both a watch officer and with naval intelligence, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. (In the first draft of the script, he was busy using wet-navy helm orders for maneuvers under thrusters at space stations. He knew they were wrong, but he also knew that he could write them in a coherent fashion and planned on cleaning them up later.)

There is enough interest in the project that said show runner is flying down to Australia to discuss money and possible filming locations. Where we go from here and/or how quickly we do so is in the laps of the gods.

One thing. I have not attempted to retain dictatorial control of the (possible) series for two main reasons: (1) script writing is not what I do for a living and is not my area of expertise, and (2) they are thinking in terms of a 3-5 season story arc to cover the novels from OBS to EoH, and if I got deeply involved in making sure they did all of them perfectly according to the series, I wouldn't get any new novels done during that time frame. Since I am planning at least 9 more in the HH story line plus a spin-off series (which I think of as the "Saganami Island" series which will focus on certain of Honor's Academy students and their careers and which should also go to at least 8 or 9 books), the time sink facets of the operation would simply make my detailed, hands-on involvement in the scripts themselves impractical.

Having said that, the one point I did insist upon was that if I DID have any concerns, their senior writers would be contractually required to respond to my concerns in writing. This will not compel them to do things my way, but it will (hopefully) at least compel them to think seriously about what I'm saying rather than just blowing it off. Also, the exact degree of supervision and visits to the set on my part which might be involved remains to be settled.

I suppose I ought to say right up front that I do not expect any eventual series to be an exact rendering of my view of HH and her universe. For one thing, I am more concerned with an actress who can portray Honor's personality and — especially — her command style than I am with someone who looks like she is described in the books. Mind you, I would NOT be happy if they cast a blue-eyed blonde in the role, but how many female 6'2" Eurasian martial artists who can also act AND project her command style are there?

The thing that I like best about the pilot script version I've seen so far is that entire blocks of dialogue are lifted directly out of the book at critical points in the development of relationships between people like Honor, McKeon, Dominica Santos, etc. Harkness' role is punched up somewhat, since they intend to make him a more prominent character in the earlier books, and while I find the sudden emergence of a decidedly lower class British accent on his part a bit unsettling, it actually grows on one with time.

I don't know whether or not I'm at liberty at this point to tell you who all is involved in this, but I can tell you that at least one individual had a series-long association with B5, which may also give you some hope for where everything is/may be headed.

As I say, at this point we don't know exactly how likely the series actually is to be produced, and things like this have a habit of taking a LOOOOONG time to gel (or not gel, as the case may be). We have had several expressions of interest from studios and cable channels, so that may be a good sign, but there's absolutely no way to predict the ultimate success or failure of the project.

Gotta go back and write some more,
David

Subject: AAR: MWW spoke to me in San Diego (I R Humbled)
Group: Honorverse
Author: C Kelsey
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:27:08 GMT
Local: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:27:08 -0400

yummy yummy yumm yumm....

Subject: SD book signing, my own notes
Group: Honorverse
Author: ericth
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:10:15 GMT
Local: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:10:15 -0400

I realized a couple of details may be at variance from the other reports of the signing but we'll just have to see.

Notes from the San Diego book signing:

As I'm sure will be shocking news to bar readers, DW admitted that he has too many irons in the fire and too many books to write.  In addition to honorverse books, he has 4 Prince Roger under contract, I think 5 Multiverse, 2 Bahzell, he just wrote a novella unrelated to anything else (although it had echoes of the Excalibur Alternative).  Given how busy he is, he somewhat regrets publishing the Multiverse books (I assume he means "at this time") due to the fact that he just cant write fast enough to turn in books in all of the series fast enough to avoid major delays between books.  Also, the nature of the his collaborative process is such that both authors need to be initmately invloved with each book, so no throwing a manuscript over the wall to the less busy partner.

Some interesting other tidbits:
Honorverse:

By the end of this year Baen will have three Honorverse manuscripts turned in. Storm from the Shadows, and the next Honor (tentative title Mission of Honor) and CoS novels.  Storm comes out March 09 but is do for some rewriting to restructure certain plot elements. The deadline for the changes is Sept 1 so they can make it into the eARC, which tells us approximately when it will be avaialble.

There was a bit of dialogue with the audience about how much of a book to snippet and how quickly.  Apparently in play are issues related to getting folks interested enough to buy the book, satisfying the cravings of bar flies who want it NOW, and how long before publication to start and how big to make each snippet.  BRSA was unusual in the length of delay between script turn in and publication.  If I recall, there were 60 or 70 SoS snippets before the book but approx 115 BRSA snippets, a difference of 15 weeks at 3 snippets/week.  We didnt really resolve anything and I think he was just soliciting feedback.  There has already been some Bar discussion on this.

Agamemnons are the all up hollow core design like Medusa-Bs are.  Recall that Medusa-As are only hollow for 30% of their length (not sure about Invictuses) whereas Medusa-Bs and Aggys are hollow for about 70% of their length (posted on the Bar a while back).  That's part of why honor muses about the Aggys being somewhat squishy with respect to taking battle damage.

The 12 second delay in between patterns of pods has to do with a) the cycle time on the launch rails and b) the time it takes a launched pod to clear the wedge.  I think he was referring to Aggys at this point but they also have more launchers than previoiusly mentioned so they can dump lots of pods real fast if needed.

One of the reasons that the honorverse has branched out into three separate series is to enable more characters to be "viewpoint characters" and flesh them out.  Part of this is a necessity.  Honor is now too senior to "go on death rides" and you have to have someone on the scene to do them.  Multiple stories allows for a more thorough treatment of each plot thread, fewer infodump passages in the main-stem honor novels, and more viewpoint characters.  More viewpoint characters allows him to flesh them out as well as provide a greater pool of characters at the appropriate seniority levels to go on death rides or other things he needs someone to do.

Apparently, in Mission of Honor, Honor continues her growth in realizing who she is and becomes the closest thing to a peer Elizbeth really has.  Remember, Honor is a head of state in her own right as a steadholder, not merely a subordinate. That Mission of Honor at least starts out trying to negotiate an end to the war is apparently largely due to Honor's efforts.

Safehold:
It was a deliberate author's decision to severely limit how much Nimue uses the advanced tech she has access to.  Part of it is that she's not ruthless enough to slaughter defensless opponents in job lots.  But the major part is it would be too much Deus Ex Machina which makes for boring stories.

On the ending: Yes, BRSA does end in a minor cliffhanger, more of an unresolved point. It's a bit less episodic than many of his other novels.  But, since the manuscript for BHD was turned in barely two weeks after that of BRSA he felt that offset things a bit.  Publisher's scheduling is another matter however....

BHD is likely to be delayed "2 or 3 months" in his estimate, from the publication date of Storm from the Shadows to avoid cannibalizing sales.

And Nimue does indeed find a way to deal with the Rakurai system. She..
<POUND POUND POUND> OPEN THE DOOR! THIS IS THE NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT POLICE!
oh, crap, they got here faster than I anticipated. Anyway, how it works is...
<CRASH> sound of boots on stairs.
s <Sound of a struggle>he
<Sound of breaking furniture>
manages to....

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Subject: Re: SD book signing, my own notes
Group: Honorverse
Author: C Kelsey
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:16:58 GMT
Local: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:16:58 -0400

And neither of us mentioned DW saying "to those who believe Mesa does not represent a credible threat to the Star Empire of Manticor... I say HA!!!!  They do..."  I do believe there was some "tum te tum tum tuuuummm" music in the background as well.  :-D

Hello Stanislav,
I was very excited to get your e-mail, thanks so much for getting in touch with me! Your uniform is fantastic! I would love to see some detail photos of the beret patch and anything else you feel like showing off. :) Again, great job! I passed your e-mail and photo along to the producers and writers at Ad Astra and they were all very impressed.

Does your group have a Web site? I would be interested in checking it out if so.

I have some more art on my DeviantArt account that your group may be interested in, if you haven't seen it already. Check it out here: http://thomasthecat.deviantart.com/gallery/#Honor-Harrinton

To answer your questions, right now we are working on the next ship book for the Saganami Island Tactical Simulator game; this will have game rules for the dreadnoughts and super dreadnoughts seen in Short Victorious War. Next up is our third Jaynes book, which will cover pirates and the Silesian Confederacy. The Jaynes 4 will be about the Grayson/Masadan navies before and soon after Honor of the Queen. The current plan is to then do Jaynes 5 on the Andermani Navy.

We're a small company working after hours on most of this stuff so it is going to take a while unfortunately. But that's the plan. :)

I hope you will keep in touch. I am really looking forward to seeing the other kinds of uniforms you guys are going to be making! And on a more personal note, my mother's father is of Czech ancestry...small world!

Thanks again for contacting me,
Thomas

    Mr. Cech:
     
    To answer the questions you posted - we've been waiting on approvals for the Silesian Confederacy Jaynes for over a year now.  David is VERY busy writing new books for the series, and we're trying to get everything ready for our next approval window.
     
    It would likely be Silesian, then Andermani, then Grayson in that order, but the real holdup is David.
     
    Nicely done on the Uniform.  We're batting around a "Uniform Reference Book" that will have expanded versions of Thomas' artwork, a good text descriptions of the uniforms and pattern images made by a costuming friend I know.
     
    May I put her in contact with you to see what she can glean from how you made your costume?

Hey Stanislav,
We actually have completed the design of the plasma rifle, it's just waiting for approval by David. But while it shares the scope with the pulse rifle (this was done on purpose so that the two weapons can swap parts in the field if necessary) the body is pretty different. The stock is very long and has intakes for air, as that air is the "ammo" which is super heated and vented out the front as plasma. In the front there is a large block that is composed of a set of radiators working in tandem to keep the weapon as cool as possible during combat so that the person using it doesn't end up being a crispy critter.

The heavy power pack, which is the same one used in the pulse rifle, is inserted at a 45 degree angle into a receiver just before the trigger.

There is a plasma carbine and a rifle. The plasma carbine is shorter and has a smaller radiator. The plasma rifle has a longer stock and uses two power packs to fire. Also, the rifle has an optional snap-on barrel that allows greater accuracy and power, as the barrel has more radiators running down its entire length which lets the weapon use more energy without harming the user. This is the long barrel you saw in the Jaynes book. As I said it can be detached and has a built in bipod mount.

Unfortunately I cannot send you this artwork as it has yet to be published, but hopefully you can get an idea of what it looks like from this description.

--Thomas

Vážený pane,

další tlustospis Davida Webera, Shadow of Saganami, se právě dopřekládává a
měl by, pokud všechno půjde jak má, vyjít před vánocemi. Na jaře příštího
roku vyjde At all Costs a v průběhu roku pak Weber + White: In Death Ground.
Co bude dál záleží na tom, jestli do té doby dostaneme z Baenu nové knihy
nebo ne. Pokud ne, mezitím bychom vydali The Shiva Option a především In
Fury Born.
Takže čtěte a doporučujte dál, ať to všechno zvládneme a nezkrachujeme :-)

S pozdravem
B. Svoboda, POLARIS

3) S řadou fanů HH jsem v poměrně častém kontaktu, takže stránky věnované HH
znám velmi dobře a zapojuji se dle možností i do diskuse:-)

5) Přímo o reklamě na HH neuvažujeme, ale o podpoře v některých médiích a
periodikách ano.

Jsem velmi rád že knihy D. Webera se fanům líbí a že je doporučují a půjčují
dalším zájemcům:-) a zdravím tímto posádku HMS Phantom a všechny ostatní
fany a čtenáře.

Bohuslav Svoboda, POLARIS

Parcon a Istrocon nestíhám, na 90% bych se měl objevit na Fénixconu v Brně.

Můj skromný názor je že německý a polský fóra o honor stojej za starou belu  :D

A americká obdoba našeho Phantoma jakbysmet.

I just finished working on some illustrations that will be published in the next Honor Harrington novel. More on that once I know when the book will be in the wild. But this is a pretty great thing and i'm really excited about it.

:D Akorát pro Honorversum by se ty boty měly jmenovat asi nějak takhle: HexaPuma Urban Flat 2 Gravicycle Boot   :D

Tak zase jsem něco vytáhnul z marroneho. Návrh bot který použili na uniformy vycházely z těhlech bot:
(http://www.seastarsuperbikes.co.uk/Puma/flat2.jpg)

Puma Urban Flat 2 Motorcycle Boot

:D Akorát pro Honorversum by se ty boty měly jmenovat asi nějak takhle: HexaPuma Urban Flat 2 Gravicycle Boot   :D

Ježišimarjá :D:D To může pomaluaspirovat na Lodní Vlajku Phantomu :D

:D Akorát pro Honorversum by se ty boty měly jmenovat asi nějak takhle: HexaPuma Urban Flat 2 Gravicycle Boot   :D

Subject: Treecat combat armor
Group: Honorverse
Author: sempi
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:08:47 GMT
Local: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:08:47 -0400


Talk has been talked about Treecats joining the Manticorian military.

Treecat marines would be very interesting.

Nimitz does have a skin suit. So the technology for 'cat sized tech exists. What about Treecat combat armor. Or Regular sized Combat armor, redesigned on the inside for a 'cat pilot.

Just something interesting for you guys to toss around

NJ holt nemaj nekoho jako ja kdo by vramci diskuse poukazal na zjevne veci.  :P

Subject: Re: Chattacon - Mission of Honor Arc
Group: Honorverse
Author: fuotofinish
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:20:08 GMT
Local: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:20:08 -0500

David was talking a bit about a new book with Tor as the publisher I think that looks like it will be very good.

What little he was talking about it has invading aliens that come to think we Humans are completely nuts after trying to deal with us. Wink

To jako že uz Honorverse nebude uz jen o lidech??? To snad ne...!

No, doufam. Me jenom mate ta citace.

Tady je odkaz na docela zajímavé pojednání o možnosti vytvoření reálného warpového pohonu:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/1251197/Warp-Drive-A-New-Approach (http://www.scribd.com/doc/1251197/Warp-Drive-A-New-Approach)

Teď ještě aby se už konečně rozběhl LHC a objevil se víc než jeden Higgs a onen článek by mohl být časem skutečně využitelný :).

edit: pročetl jsem to docela důkladně a je tam třeba ještě i hypotéza vysvětlující, proč je gravitační síla o tolik slabší než ostatní...

Původní Battlestar příliš komiksová. Nová snad až příliš temná a až moc zpolitizovaná. Mimochodem je mi dost záhadou, jak je možné, že lidské stíhačky vůbec něco sestřelí, protože protivníci mohou podle mého přesvědčení dělat obraty asi tak s 2-3 násobným přetížením. Jinak koukat se na to dá.

Neviděl jsem nikde ani náznak, že by ve stíhačkách nabo raptorech ve volném prostoru byl stav beztíže.

Celery

Celery raw
Develops the jaw.
But celery stewed
is more quietly chewed.

(by Green Bear)

Copy edit for "Out of the Dark" from Tor - *grump* - I want to get started on the next Honorverse novel - sequel to Storm From the Shadows.

"Just started the next Honorverse book - technically a Storm From the Shadows sequel but the storylines all run together @ this point."

Nádhera. Takže jako obvykle, kdypak to asi bude?!

Nestras!!!! ;D

Já jsem dokázal během jednoh zkouškovýho shlédnout celý 4 řady HIMYM a ještě se řádně připravit na zkoušky :). Teď jen aby se to neodrazilo na dvojici Cachat - Zilwicky...

Ne, já měl na mysli, aby se na duu C-Z neodrazilo takové nárazové sledování NCIS v případě DW :)

Lidi, ja z vas budu mit nocni mury.... 8)

- máme očekávat několik samostatných románu z Honorversu, rozšíření některé kratší povídky a historii Alfreda Harringtona než šel na medicínu