History Creator / DavidWeber

* WeWillAllBeHistoryBuffsInTheFuture: In ''Literature/ApocalypseTroll'', the time-traveling fighter jock just ''happens'' to be a history buff, able to spout encyclopedic explanations of events leading up to her time of origin. This extends to technical explanations of future machinery that had already become antiquated by her time.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: All over the place.

* ApocalypseHow: Planetary-level class 3, 4, and 5 happens in the backstories

[[caption-width-right:350:David Weber with his wife Sharon.]]

Known for showing his work in {{Infodump}}s, even when in reality SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay[[note]]though at least MagicAIsMagicA remains in force[[/note]]. Has a thing for Asian female protagonists. Due to injured hands, he dictates (into a computer) {{Door Stopper}}s of ever-increasing length.

* TheGoodKing: To the extent that one can make judgments about an author's politics from his works, Weber is a not-so-closeted monarchist, describing people as biased against monarchy and toward republics in his works, no matter how [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny tyrannical]] or [[HereditaryRepublic in name only]] that republic is. That said, it's important to note that he's a ''constitutional'' monarchist - all of his protagonist royals preside over or strive for some form of representative government. They have real but limited powers, or wield their theoretically absolute power in an enlightened, limited way.

David Mark Weber (born October 24, 1952) is a best-selling author of Science fiction and Fantasy.

Known for showing his work in {{Infodump}}s, even when in reality SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay[[note]]though at least MagicAIsMagicA remains in force[[/note]]. Has a thing for Asian female protagonists. Due to injured hands, he dictates (into a computer) {{Door Stopper}}s of ever-increasing length. Is also a Naval Historian.

** Unfortunately, David doesn't really have a good grasp of the Church and Christianity in general. As the Church also believed in the equality of all human beings and was one of the main driving forces for equality throughout its existence.

* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Co-written with Creator/EricFlint, the creator of the series. In the year 2000, a coal-mining town from West Virginia gets hurled across space and time to Germany in the 1630s, bringing half a millennium's worth of scientific knowledge and an iron-clad belief in the equality of all human beings to the church- and aristocrat-dominated 17th century.

->''"I'm a storyteller. I enjoy telling stories; it's as simple as that. "''

->''I'm a storyteller. I enjoy telling stories; it's as simple as that. "''

* SpaceAmish, or at least wannabe SpaceAmish. The planets of Grayson, Pardal, and Safehold.

David Weber is a best-selling author of Science fiction and Fantasy.

David Weber is a best selling Author of Science fiction and Fantasy.

* ''[[Literature/PrinceRoger The Empire of Man]]'': Co-Written with Creator/JohnRingo. RoyalBrat Prince Roger, third in line to the throne of the Empire of Man, is targeted for assasination. It doesn't fail by much, and he's stranded- along with the Marine battalion responsible for keeping his sorry ass alive- on Marduk. Marduk being a DeathWorld with distressingly unfriendly natives, it gets worse from there. On the upside, Roger belatedly [[ComingOfAgeStory gets better]] in a big way.

* TrollingCreator: To the point where "whatever we think, RFC[[note]]Runs For Celery, Weber's nickname on the forums[[/note]] will still surprise us" and its variations are a common theme on fan forums. A case worthy of mention is when in one of replies to ''Hell's Foundations Quiver'' snippet he posted another, short snippet which (apparently) presents the death of one of major characters (but cuts just before anything is made clear). When congratulated on making a good joke, he stated that this was from the middle of the book.

* OldShame: TWTMNBN, The Weapon That Must Not Be Named - the Grav Lance from ''On Basilisk Station''. Since that book, he has done his best to create absolutely '''no''' situation in which a Grav Lance would be useful.

* OldShame: TWTMNBN, The Weapon That Must Not Be Named - the Grav Lance from ''On Basilisk Station''. Since that book, he has done his best to create absolutely '''no''' situation in which a Grave Lance would be useful.

* BuryYourGays: Homosexuality being one of the very few issues Webber doesn't address in his many works.