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    July 30, 2002
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    January 01, 2002
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The Honor of the Queen

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  • Series:Honorverse (Honor Harrington)
  • First Release:June 01, 1993

RIGHT WOMAN, WRONG PLACE

It's hard to give peace a chance when the other side regards was as the necessary prelude to conquest, and a sneak attack as the best means to that end. That's why the Kingdom of Manticore needs allies against the so-called "Republic" of Haven - and the planet Grayson is in just the right strategic place to make a very good ally indeed. But Her Majesty's Foreign Office had overlooked a "minor cultural difference" when they chose Honor Harrington to carry the flag: women on the planet Grayson are without rank or rights; Honor's very presence is an intolerable affront to every male on the planet.

At first Honor doesn't take it personally; where she comes from gender discrimination is barely a historical memory, right up there in significance with fear of the left-handed. But in time such treatment as she recieves from the Graysonites does become wearing, and Honor would withdraw if she could - but then Grayson's fratricidal sister planet attacks without warning and she must stay and prevail, not just for Honor's honor, but for her sovereign's, for -

The Honor Of The Queen