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

On 6/21/2022 10:59 AM, Bob Casanova wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for helping me to understand that !  I got confused.

Lynn