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

On 6/15/2022 3:20 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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

If anything, the book was inspired by the excellent Starfire books that 
Steve White and David Weber wrote back in the 1990s.
     https://www.amazon.com/Crusade-Starfire-David-Weber/dp/0671721119/

Wow, you can still buy new copies of the Starfire books !

Lynn