While he has honed and perfected his style over the years, in the main this one is every bit as entertaining a read. Weber has a way of getting inside his characters thought processes and allowing his readers to understand the "logic" behind their points of view even when those points of view are abhorrent.
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Should any of the ideologues in the U. Congress care about good governance they should give him a call! I highly recommend this book to all Weber fans and others who love good stories about lords and ladies and hard fought battles This book is set in a future in which the known galaxy is controlled by a monolithic confederation of "advanced races", that is, the races which, on their own, discovered the technology which makes star travel possible. This confederation controls and exploits the rest of the sentient races in the galaxy like a bunch of mobsters.
Enter a few hundred British longbowmen and infantry which were "rescued" from certain death by one of the advanced races. Due to the confederation's "Prime Directive" which disallows use of advanced weaponry on non-advanced worlds, the trade unions utilize a loophole in the law and use the British soldiers to win battles for them on undeveloped worlds which allows the trade union to despoil planets for their own material gain. After a few hundred years or so of this, the British escape, take over an advanced ship, win the loyalty of the "Computer", and disappear to start their own competing civilization.
Of course, the end of the book comes down to a climactic showdown in Earth's solar system in the 21st century.
A really great read. I'll put this book in my read-again-later stack.
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