Re: "Governor (1) (Ascent to Empire)" by David Weber and Richard Fox

On 6/15/2022 7:45 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 June 2022 at 23:50:52 UTC+1, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> "Governor (1) (Ascent to Empire)" by David Weber and Richard Fox
>> https://www.amazon.com/Governor-Ascent-Empire-David-Weber/dp/1982126116/
>>
>> Book number two of a two book military science fiction series. I read
>> the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Baen in 2022. I am
>> not sure if this precedes Weber's "In Fury Born" or is a sequel to it.
>> And this book is obviously planned to be a trilogy, I wonder if it will
>> make it.
>>
>> The Federation and the League have been at war for over fifty years.
>> Over six billion lives lost. Each union has thousands of human worlds.
>> And then there are the three meter tall Rish lizards and Quarn avian
>> alien races to complicate thigns with their own agendas.
>>
>> On the fringes outside the Heart worlds of the Federation, the Fringe
>> worlds are constantly raided by League pirates for materials and slaves.
>> But this time the League force destroyed the entire infrastructure of
>> the Fringe planet, just before winter arrived at the 150,000 person
>> colony. So it is a race for the colonists to freeze or starve.
>>
>> The authors have websites at:
>> http://www.davidweber.net/
>> and
>> https://www.amazon.com/Richard-Fox/e/B00HVM4QBY
>>
>> My rating: 4 out of 5 stars
>> Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,765 reviews)
> 
> Inspired by Star Trek ep "The Conscience of the King"
> perhaps?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394903/

I doubt it.

Lynn