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

On 2022-06-20 7:07 a.m., 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.
> 
> It appears to be book one, not two. It even says (1) in your title.
> 
> And it's clearly precedes IFB given that spoiler - it's not MUCH of a
> spoiler given the series title! but still:
> 
> 
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> In "In Fury Born" there's no longer any League AND the Terran Republic
> has become the Terran Empire as result of that multi-sided war (not
> just the Republic and the League) that this describes the start of.
> 
> There's more than enough time, space and material for several
> trilogies if they want, we're talking a multi-phase war with 3
> combatants, and then a period of "cold-war" from there to even Devries
> earliest flash-backs (IIRC getting accepted for marine training).
> 
> I suspect it depends on whether they sell well, my recollection of
> what I've seen from him is that Richard Fox should be quite capable of
> writing this, I assume Weber mostly? contributes with "universe",
> tech-bible and possibly outlines though I could be wrong.

Considering that it has none of Weber's crappy space battle writing I 
assume Fox will be doing the work.