Free Download | 1633 | David Weber and Eric Flint

Most of the current book deals with coalition building, as the visitors from the future attempt to remake their new world into one safe for democracy despite opposition from such as Cardinal Richelieu. History books from a now-hypothetical future and antibiotics prove to be more potent than their limited supply of modern firearms, but the most powerful weapons of the new "United States" are its ideas, which now infect the millions of Germans ground under the heels of their princes. Ordinary Germans develop a new faith in themselves and their future when the Americans show them that they can do anything, even fly. Flint, a former union organizer, is particularly skilled at showing how the new converts can make even the "old Americans" uncomfortable in their zeal to achieve the blessings of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," while Weber helps smooth out characters who were stereotypes in the first book.

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Free Download | More Than Honor (Worlds of Honor #1) | David Weber

More Than Honor is a collection of short stories set in David Weber's Honorverse, or the universe of Weber's Honor Harrington series. This book contains three short stories and one essay, none of which are about Harrington herself, but provide lots of background information enhancing the reader's understanding of the Honerverse. The first story, Weber's A Beautiful Friendship, recounts the first contact between humans and treecats, and how the relationshihp between the two species developed. We learn much from this story about the 'cats and their culture. David Drake checks in with the next story, A Grand Tour, about Hakyon Nessler, who encounters some disreputable naval officers committing an act of piracy, and how he takes matters into his own hands in dealing with them. S.M. Stirling delivers the third story, A Whiff of Grapeshot, set on Haven.

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Free Download | The Excalibur Alternative | David Weber

It's 1340 AD. A medieval baron and his company of soldiers are abducted into the larger universe to soldier for aliens led by a 'Demon Jester.' Their lives were saved from an ocean typhoon, but the price is high. The Demon Jester's merchant association has gotten it's own successful war-making primitive army, but the lives of the individual 'primitive' slave-soldiers are worthless in their culture's society. Examples are made. The Baron doesn't like it, and looks for a way to save his men, wife, and child.

This novel has three distinct parts: the abduction and settling in (well done), the later years in alien's employ (drags), and the Excalibur Alternative (abrupt perspective shift-over) near the end. Weber goes overboard on conversational exposition, resulting in the characters telling the reader what happened, instead of showing and describing events.

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