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[deleted] t1_istb0oh wrote

I'd say Honor Harrington is deeply focused on character, albeit not just one.

...it's just too bad that Honor is barely a character, she's more of a Saturday morning superhero.

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ActonofMAM t1_isxk9uq wrote

Weber tries hard, but sometimes you need a machete to find your way through all the exposition to the Crowning Moments of Awesome.

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[deleted] t1_isxl42x wrote

You could just skip all the chapters about the enemy politics, and go skim the Wikipedia page on the French Revolution.

Because that's what the author did, yuk yuk yuk

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ActonofMAM t1_isxlkjb wrote

Weber was at one point a history grad student working toward a PhD. It's his tragic flaw: to him, all the back story stuff IS interesting. He was also absent the day the "show, don't tell" unit was covered in writing class.

But I'll forgive him one heck of a lot for "Ooops," said Shannon Forraker.

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DapperTalk2702 OP t1_istbdoq wrote

It is character focused but it really feels more like she is an excuse to have really cool space battles that's why I added the caveat of good stories. I could find plenty of w/e Sci-fi on word press, fan fic.net, and silk road.

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[deleted] t1_istcm0r wrote

Try Becky Chambers' books, starting with A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet. Barely any action, but deep, DEEP character and interpersonal work in each book.

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