Joelle Presby

Joelle Presby is a science-fiction author and contributor to David Weber's Honorverse, a military space-opera universe centered on the Honor Harrington novels. With Weber, she co-wrote The Road to Hell, part of the Hell's Gate sequence, and she has contributed original short fiction to the Honorverse's shared anthologies, including "Obligated Service," about a young woman from the militaristic planet Grayson fulfilling a naval obligation. Presby has also written The Dabare Snake Launcher, a science-fiction novel exploring a fictional African nation's ambitious space program, and short fiction set in other authors' shared universes, including Honor Harrington-adjacent stories and contributions to the Tales of the Terran Republic setting. Her work consistently favors hard science-fiction problem-solving layered over military and political institutions.