eating cucumbers without permission...

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, Ashes of Victory, War of Honor, More Than Honor, Worlds of Honor, Changer of Worlds, by David Weber: a review. References are to the electronic editions, all of which are available free online.

For some reason I can no longer recall, back in July I wrote a set of scripts to scrape FanFiction.net and acquire some statistics. They’re essentially useless, since the site — despite being the 800lb. gorilla of this space — isn’t the be all and end all of the fanfiction community. Fandoms with archives of their own and fandoms predating the site are definitely under-represented, though I can’t say by exactly how much. Still, what follows is the top thirty FanFiction.net fandoms by number of stories, as of August 20, 2005.