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

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:20:14 GMT, the following appeared in
alt.books.david-weber, posted by [email protected] (Scott
Lurndal):

>Lynn McGuire <[email protected]> writes:
>>On 6/20/2022 8:07 AM, Torbjorn Lindgren wrote:
>>> Lynn McGuire  <[email protected]> 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.
>
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Yup, and if you've read IFB you know what their agendas are...
>>
>>I read IFB over a decade ago.  Maybe two decades ago.
>
>Did you read the original or the expanded edition?
>
To answer the first question, it's a prequel, and the first
book (of the "Ascent to Empire" series), not the second

The original was "Path of the Fury". It began with "Book 1
Victims", which is Book 4 (also "Victims") of IFB; all the
"development of Alicia" and "how we got here" was skipped.
>
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