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

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:53:09 -0500, the following appeared
in alt.books.david-weber, posted by Lynn McGuire
<[email protected]>:

>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.
>
No problem; I read Path first, and was delighted to find the
expanded one.
>
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