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# Worlds of Honor IT'S A PARTY! In Honor's Honor, David Weber and Other Top Science Fiction Writers Pay a Visit to Honor Harrington's Universe— and You're Invited! In just a few short years, David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction! The core of his work is Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. Now Weber invites you to join him and his invitees as they explore Honor's universe. The Host and His Guests: David Weber himself is on board with three never-before published excursions into Honor's universe. First, he tells how young Honor Harrington first demonstrated the heroic stuff she was made of when she and her treecat Nimitz face the impossible task of rescuing the victims of an avalanche in a sub-zero blizzard.... Weber returns with a chapter in the history of the telepathic treecats, who are far more intelligent than humans realize, and with whom the right human can form a close telepathic bond that can be severed only by death. But in this case, the young human who bonded with a treecat was a Very Important Person. Specifically, she was a Manticoran crown princess and the heir to the throne of the empire.... Roland Green, author of the "Starcruiser Shenandoah" series and the "Peace Company" series, is on board with a hard-hitting account of what happened when Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven went eyeball-to-eyeball over a strategically vital planet.... Linda Evans, "Time Scout" co-author, looks at life among the treecats, before Honor.... Jane Linskold, author of the highly-praised fantasy Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls, tells how Honor's monarch, Elizabeth III, had to learn the hard way what monarchy is all about.... Cover art by David Mattingly
Hardcover Paperback This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. First printing, February1999 Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Weber, David, 1952– Worlds of Honor / David Weber. p. cm. "A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso. Contents: The stray / Linda Evans — What price dreams? / David Weber — Queen's gambit / Jane Lindskold — The hard way home / David Weber — Deck load strike / Roland J. Green. ISBN 0-671-57786-7 (hardcover) 1. Science fiction. American. 2. Harrington, Honor (Fictitious character)—Fiction. II. Title PS648.S3W43 1999 98-47810 813'.0876208—cd21 CIP | ### ISBN: 0-671-57855-3 Copyright © 1999 by David M. Weber "The Stray" copyright © 1999 by Linda Evans; "What Price Dreams?" copyright © 1999 by David M. Weber; "Queen's Gambit" copyright © 1999 by Jane Lindskold; "The Hard Way Home" copyright © 1999 by David M. Weber; "Deck Load Strike" copyright © 1999 by Roland J. Green All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale, NY 10471 http://www.baen.com Production by Windhaven Press Auburn, NH Electronic version by WebWrights http://www.webwrights.com
## Thousands Could Tell Her That, And She Wouldn't Believe It. . . . "What is it, Stinker?" Honor asked. She knelt beside Nimitz in the gathering twilight, and the treecat sat up on his rearmost limbs, reaching up to pat her chest urgently. His eyes bored into hers like augers, and she knew he was trying to tell her something, but she couldn't quite bring herself to believe the most logical explanation. Treecats had been used over the years in search and rescue efforts on Sphinx, but not as often as one might have expected, for the range at which they could sense human beings they'd never met before appeared to be limited. There had been instances of `cats who were able to home in on total strangers at distances of up to a hundred or even two hundred meters, but such cases were extremely rare. They were over three hundred meters beyond the line the SAR teams had calculated as the furthest any of the lift cars might have been carried by the avalanche. The shouts and machinery sounds of the rescue effort were small and lost here, little stronger than the whine and moan of the gathering wind, and Honor looked around trying to see anything that might have brought Nimitz here. The 'cat made a sound, half-leading and half-commanding, and he made an unmistakable gesture with his right true-hand. A gesture that pointed straight down into the snow. "Here?" —from "The Hard Way Home" by David Weber BAEN BOOKS by DAVID WEBER Honor Harrington Novels: On Basilisk Station The Honor of the Queen The Short Victorious War Field of Dishonor Flag in Exile Honor Among Enemies In Enemy Hands Echoes of Honor edited by David Weber: More Than Honor Worlds of Honor Mutineers' Moon The Armageddon Inheritance Heirs of Empire Path of the Fury The Apocalypse Troll Oath of Swords The War God's Own with Steve White: Insurrection Crusade In Death Ground Shiva Option

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