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

[Lynn McGuire]

"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)

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

On 6/15/2022 7:45 AM, Robert Carnegie wrote:

> Inspired by Star Trek ep "The Conscience of the King"
> perhaps?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394903/

I doubt it.

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

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

[Torbjorn Lindgren]

Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> 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:



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.

Hmm, 1799 ratings since release in 1 June, with an average of 4.7.
Yes, that's *Amazon* inflated rankings but it's still rather good.

Richard Fox's own books also have generally good reviews but WAY less
reviews compared to this (mostly in the low hundreds, with one at 957
reviews but that's one of his earliest, published in June 30, 2015!).

So yeah, I think there's a GOOD chance we'll see more books in this.

>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...

[Lynn McGuire]

I read IFB over a decade ago. Maybe two decades ago.

Thanks.
Lynn

[Scott Lurndal]

Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> writes:
>On 6/20/2022 8:07 AM, Torbjorn Lindgren wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> 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?

[Bob Casanova]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 15:20:14 GMT, the following appeared in
alt.books.david-weber, posted by sc...@slp53.sl.home (Scott
Lurndal):

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.
>
--

Bob C.

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science,
the one that heralds new discoveries, is not
'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

- Isaac Asimov

[Bob Casanova]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:59:19 -0700, the following appeared
in alt.books.david-weber, posted by Bob Casanova
<nos...@buzz.off>:

Oops; the second paragraph refers to "In Fury Born", not
"Governor".

[Lynn McGuire]

The original. I do not remember if I also purchased and read the
rewritten version.

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

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

Lynn

[Bob Casanova]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 21:53:09 -0500, the following appeared
in alt.books.david-weber, posted by Lynn McGuire
<lynnmc...@gmail.com>:

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

[David Johnston]

On 2022-06-20 7:07 a.m., Torbjorn Lindgren wrote:
> Lynn McGuire <lynnmc...@gmail.com> 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:
>
>
> 
> 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.