More Than Honor

As is often the case with collections of short fiction, I enjoyed some parts of this book better than others.A Beautiful Friendship (David Weber)I really liked this story, which chronicles the first meeting between humans and treecats. David Weber later expanded this story into a YA novel with the same title, and as soon as I finished reading this version I went onto the Baen website to purchase and download the novel so I could read it too. I liked seeing more of the treecats as full-fledged characters.A Grand Tour (David Drake)This was my least favourite portion of the anthology. It wasn't badly written, but it seemed only tangentially connected to the rest of the Honor Harrington universe. It really seemed like it could have easily been dropped into another science fiction universe simply by changing the names of a few places and groups of people.A Whiff of Grapeshot (S.M. Stirling)This short story fills in background for an event that was mentioned more or less in passing in the book [b:In Enemy Hands 77740 In Enemy Hands (Honor Harrington, #7) David Weber http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1321561738s/77740.jpg 2684782]. I liked this one a lot, and the events it covered really work best in short story format rather than as part of a novel as a whole.The Universe of Honor Harrington (David Weber)And this one read like a history book. Which, to be fair, is more or less what it is, so it fulfils its purpose in that regard. I enjoyed it for the background information it provides, but it isn't really a story. It was a slow read, and probably not strictly necessary, but for people who will read through all the appendix information and footnotes in various books because they find them fascinating this is an excellent addition. I do like how well everything hangs together.Out of the collection as a whole, my favourite part was definitely A Beautiful Friendship.