Honorverse Timeline Booklist
The Main Honor Harrington series rests on the future history of humankind about 2000 years in the making. The people and societies face challenges, triumphs, defeats, and conflicts of personal choice and cultural differences. The storytelling vividly illuminates the human spirit which can often be very bright or very dark. This is a fast paced intriguing series, no words are extraneous; no detail is superfluous, from the start "On Basilisk Station", March 3, 1900 PD - c. January 1901 PD.
There are five series in the
Honorverse which are internally consistent and are thoroughly enjoyable as standalone collections. Events that stand in the background in one series can be in the foreground or mid ground in another series. The viewpoint, emphasis, and detail of such an event cause the "common" event to become "unique" in each series. Below is a listing of the five series followed by a very brief fifteen hundred year chronology followed by a Reading Order.
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Many of these books are freely available online.
1 PD - 1518 PD
Sept 30, 1PD (2130 AD): The first interstellar ship, Prometheus, departs the Sol System. The era of sublight colonization begins.
314 PD: Austin Grayson leads his followers to the Yeltsin System to escape the evils of Earth's technology using a sublight
colony transport ship.
725 PD: The first crude hyper drive is tested in the Solar System.
October 24, 775 PD: The sublight colony ship Jason departs the Sol System for the Manticore Binary System.
c.925 PD: Founding of the Solarian League, a political unit that will grow to encompass virtually all systems within a
light-century of Earth.
943 PD: The "official" end of Earth's Final War leaves a home world devastated by the effects of bioweapons and genetically-engineered "super soldiers."
988 PD: The sole habitable planet of the Yeltsin System, Grayson, colonized by members of the Church of Humanity Unchained, lead by its founder Austin Grayson.
1246 PD: The first phased array gravity drive, or impeller, is designed on Beowulf in the Sigma Draconis System.
c.1273 PD: Adrienne Warshawski, of Old Terra, develops grav Scanners and "alpha node" arrays to produce circular,
plate-like gravity "sails."
Sept 9, 1284 PD: The first Warshawski Sail colony ship, Icarus, departs the Sol System. The era of sublight colonization draws to an eventual close as no new sublight expeditions are launched and previous sublight expeditions arrive at their destinations – sometimes having been beaten to their target star by later, faster efforts.
June 1309 PD: First landing of colonists in the Haven System.
Mar 21,1416 PD: First landing by colonists from Jason on Manticore-A III.
c1505 P.D. Stephanie Harrington born in Hollister on the planet Meyerdahl.
1518 PD - 1922 PD (August)
1518 PD ? "A Beautiful Friendship" (in More than Honor)
1518 PD 1521 PD A Beautiful Friendship
1521 PD ? Fire Season
1522 PD ? Treecat Wars
1520 PD ? "The Stray" (in Worlds of Honor)
c. 1652 PD c. 1652 PD "What Price Dreams?" (in Worlds of Honor)
c. 1880 PD ? "Ms. Midshipwoman Harrington" (in Changer of Worlds)
c. 1883 PD c. 1883 PD "Queen's Gambit" (in Worlds of Honor)
c. 1890 PD c. 1890 PD "The Hard Way Home" (in Worlds of Honor)
c. 1892 PD c. 1892 PD "Promised Land" (in The Service of the Sword)
c. 1894 PD c. 1894 PD "Ruthless" (in In Fire Forged)
c. 1899 PD c. 1899 PD "Let's Dance" (in In Fire Forged)
March 3, 1900 PD c. 1901 PD (January) On Basilisk Station
? ? "With One Stone" (in The Service of the Sword)
c. 1903 PD (April) c. 1903 PD (May) The Honor of the Queen
c. 1904 PD c. 1905 PD (May) The Short Victorious War
? ? "A Ship Named Francis" (in The Service of the Sword)
? ? "A Grand Tour" (in More than Honor)
c. 1905 PD (June) ? Field of Dishonor
? ? "Deck Load Strike" (in Worlds of Honor)
? c. 1907 PD (August) Flag in Exile
c. 1908 PD (September) c. 1910 PD (March) Honor Among Enemies
c. July 1911 PD ? "A Whiff of Grapeshot" (in More than Honor)
? ? "Changer of Worlds" (in Changer of Worlds)
c. 1911 PD c. 1911 PD (December) In Enemy Hands
c. 1912 PD (February) c. 1913 PD (December) Echoes of Honor
c. 1913 PD c. 1913 PD "An Act of War" (in In Fire Forged)
? ? "Let's Go To Prague" (in The Service of the Sword)
c Feb 1914 PD ? "From the Highlands" (in Changer of Worlds)
c. 1913 PD (December) c. 1915 PD (May) Ashes of Victory
c. 1914 PD (December) c. 1914 PD (December) "Nightfall" (in Changer of Worlds)
c. 1915 PD (May) c. 1915 PD (May) "Fanatic" (in The Service of the Sword)
c. 1918 PD (June) c. 1918 PD (August) "The Service of the Sword" (in The Service of the Sword)
c. 1918 PD c. 1920 PD War of Honor
c. 1918 PD c. 1919 PD Crown of Slaves
c. 1920 PD (June) c. 1921 PD (July) The Shadow of Saganami
c. 1920 PD (July) c. 1921 PD (August) At All Costs
c. 1920 PD (December) c. 1921 PD (December) Storm from the Shadows
1919 PD (November) 1922 PD (April) Torch of Freedom
1921 PD (December) 1922 PD (May) Mission of Honor
1922 PD (March) 1922 PD (August) A Rising Thunder
1922 PD (February) 1922 PD (August) Shadow of Freedom
1922 PD (May) 1922 PD (October) Cauldron of Ghosts
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