“Up the kilt shot”-

An attack launched from directly astern of a starship in order to fire down the length of its impeller wedge. Due to the geometry of the impeller drive, this is a warship’s second most vulnerable aspect.

Warshawski-

Name applied to all gravitic detectors in honor of the inventor of the first such device.

Warshawski, Adrienne-

The greatest hyper-physicist in human history.

Warshawski sail-

The circular gravity “grab fields” devised by Adrienne Warshawski to permit starships to “sail” along gravity waves in hyper-space.

Wormhole Junction-

A gravitic anomaly. Effectively, a frozen flaw in normal space providing access via hyper-space as an instantaneous link between widely separated points. The largest known junction is the Manticoran Wormhole Junction with six known termini as of the beginning of War of Honor.

DAVID WEBER (USA, 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy writer born in Cleveland, Ohio. Previously he owned a small advertising and public relation agency, but now writes fiction full time. The author of sixty-three works of fiction since 1990. His work ranges from epic fantasy to alternate history to space opera and military science fiction. He is a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the Phoenix Award, and has been nominated for Locus Awards.

He and his wife Sharon live in Greenvile, South Carolina with their three children and dogs. He is a Methodist lay preacher, which has caused him to explore how religion can be a force for good but also how it can be misused for evil. An avid fan of history who dreamt of being a history professor, his fiction has been greatly influenced by his interest in history, with a strong emphasis on military history and diplomacy.