HVT-045 House of Steel

About this episode

The episode discusses the unique book 'House of Steel', a companion to the Honorverse stories, featuring a novella and detailed historical information.

This is a unique book within the Honorverse. Mostly it’s a companion to the stories we’ve read, but it also contains a novella written by David Weber. The first third of the book is essentially a biography of King Roger III told through a story, beginning with his time as a young officer in the Royal Manticoran Navy and running through his reign. The story is titled “I Will Build My House of Steel”, from which the name of the book is derived. The remaining two-thirds of the book is the detailed companion full of history, military information, political / governmental information, ship classes, and so much more. It’s a must-read! While published in May 2013, we decided to cover it out of publication order and when we reached the end of discussing all the books that have already been published and available. While that sets the novella out of order, the book really is primarily a companion volume with a lot of reference and background information on a host of topics. In this episode we discussed the novella like we would any other story or novel, then each of us highlighted a favorite section from the companion. Of course, we’d love to hear from all of you with your thoughts on the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Jim Arrowood, JP Harvey, Raul Ybarra

Topics covered

• Honorverse
• book discussion
• biography
• military history
• political information
• companion volume

Keywords

• Honorverse
• House of Steel
• David Weber
• biography
• military information
• companion volume
• novella

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Royal Manticoran Navy

Books & works: House of Steel, I Will Build My House of Steel