Sailing Sci-Fi with pirates and privateers Fiction

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Sailing Sci-Fi with pirates and privateers Fiction


The Honor Harrington Series and spin-offs by David Weber,
known collectively as the Honorverse.

Sci-Fi spaceships with Gravity "Sails", Broadside weapons and chasers.
Pirates, Privateers and Slave Ships.

Monarchs, Knights and Dames, Dukes and Duchesses, Earls, Counts and Barons and various other Titles (as not every planet is a republic).

A female main character with the CS Forrester's Hornblower books and Admiral Nelson as influences.

Probably as close as you can get to fictional "sailing ships" in space.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weber_bibliography


Some Free ebooks CDs are here
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

ISO CD images (open with winrar to extract individual files or burn to a CD) or Zip files with the CD Content are available to download

includes some free full books contents and
some Honorverse content is listed

typically available in various formats such as
html, doc, lit, prc,rb, rtf
(early 2000s pda file formats)

lit is a now obsolete Microsoft Pocket PC PDA encrpted html container file
(fixed encryption which was cracked as evey lit uses the exact same encryption key)

prc - Palm Pilot Resource container file
(The basis of Mobi and later Amazon Azw (mobi)
rb - rocket book


For Amazon Kindle ereaders
Mobi, azw, or prc (early Mobi) are the recommended file formats

For Kobos ereaders and mostly everything else non-kindle (including apple) epub recommended
(html/xml content renamed zip container file
probably not included on the CDs files as a much more recent format)


To convert Ebooks
Calibre is recommended (English - English spelling)

Calibre is a powerful and easy to use freeware e-book manager,
File converter and viewer.
Recommend that the calibre library location is not set to a personal profile.
Add files to the calibre library first either via Add button or Drag and drop.
Right click on filename to convert.

https://calibre-ebook.com/
extendable by a on-line plugin library

only a basic quick ref guide is included with the program

For The Full Calibre Manual
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/

Manual File downloads
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/calibre.epub
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/calibre.azw3
https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/calibre.pdf


https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html

Some info from the Calibre Faq

What formats does calibre support conversion to/from?

calibre supports the conversion of many input formats to many output formats. It can convert every input format in the following list, to every output format.

Input Formats: AZW, AZW3, AZW4, CBZ, CBR, CBC, CHM, DJVU, DOCX, EPUB, FB2, FBZ, HTML, HTMLZ, LIT, LRF, MOBI, ODT, PDF, PRC, PDB, PML, RB, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ

(PDF is a horrible input format to convert as lacks scalable fonts
and is more a printed manual replacement file rather than an ebook)

Microsoft DOC format not supported probably due to software copyright issues.
Save your DOC file in Microsoft Word or Libre Office Writer as either DOCX or
HTML first.

CBZ or CBR - Comic book reader renamed zips or rars with jpg or png
images

ODT - OpenDocument Text Document file
an official ISO Standard Document (file format Fully documented)
unlike Microsoft file formats which are not ISO approved
Openoffice or Libre Office Writer native format (they also use Office files)

CHM - Windows Compiled HTML (Windows 7 or earlier Help file)
FB2 - FictionBook 2 Freeware Reader File
AZW3 - Kindle Fire Colo(u)r Tablet ereader azw 3 mobi version


Output Formats: AZW3, EPUB, DOCX, FB2, HTMLZ, OEB, LIT, LRF, MOBI, PDB, PMLZ, RB, PDF, RTF, SNB, TCR, TXT, TXTZ, ZIP


What are the best source formats to convert?
In order of decreasing preference: LIT, MOBI, AZW, EPUB, AZW3, FB2, FBZ, DOCX, HTML, PRC, ODT, RTF, PDB, TXT, PDF


For a Freeware Windows PC reader

Sumatra PDF
https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.

If you want to keep say Adobe Reader (formerly acrobat)
as your Default Browser PDF reader
(Preview PDF Files in your browser)

Do not install the Sumatra PDF Browser plugin

Android Google Store or Apple store should have equivalent ereader programs for smartphones and tablets

Rule of thumb is apple store ebooks only guaranteed to work for apple products. For non-apple non-Amazon, Kobo stores etc probably a better option. DRM Free ebooks preferred.


One problem in general with reading ebooks on computer screens, Tablets and Smartphones is the screen backlighting glare causing eye fatigue.

Dedicated ereaders are not backlit, the light shines on the screen rather than into your eyes, don't have the same eye fatigue issues.

The Latest win 10 OS version has a Display - night light option
as there have been blue light blindness research concerns

Project Gutenberg (free ebooks)
https://www.gutenberg.org/

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Safehold Series by David Weber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safehold

Altered history Sci-fi with Sailing ships.

Parallels History - the Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Armada,
30 years war etc leading up to the Industrial revolution.

Has Galleys, Galleons, Pirates and Privateers by implication.
Eventually Steam Ships - Ironclads and then Turreted Battleships.

Shoulder weapons go from
Muzzleloaders - Matchlocks , to Flintlocks, percussion cap
then to breechloader - paper cartridge then to centrefire full-metal jacket
bullets.


Naval Fiction Series thread here
http://www.hookedonpirates.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7783

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David Drake - RCN Series (Lt. Leary series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake_bibliography
https://david-drake.com/

RCN Series
(also known as the Lt. Leary series)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCN_Series

Drake has described it as "an SF version of the Aubrey/Maturin series" by Patrick O'Brian"

Interstellar travel is accomplished through the use of advanced sails on the hull of starships, which take advantage of a fictional radiation to move the crafts outside of the sidereal universe, allowing faster-than-light travel. Sublight-speed travel is driven by a matter-antimatter annihilating "High Drive". Use of the High Drive in an atmosphere results in catastrophic reactions with unspent antimatter from the drive, so for intra-atmospheric operations, ships use plasma motors that vent reaction mass (water) from the fusion engines into rocket nozzles.


Some Free ebooks CDs are here
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/

see previously for various ebook file formats info

Includes some David Drake content, can't recall how much of the RCN Series is present.