ARC being ‘Advance Reader Copy’ and ‘A Call to Arms‘ being David Weber’s latest Honorverse novel (Manticore Ascendant series). Alas, Baen Publishing still doesn’t think that I’m worth buttering up with free books, so I had to shell out fifteen bucks for a before-it’s-published. Heh. ‘Had.’ As if I didn’t cheerfully drop the cash to read the books months before it came out in print. Baen’s probably being smart in not sending me free books…