Review: Good story AND decent editing
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 22, 2011
Appears to be the first book in a future history that starts with the decline of the Empire.  Second book is set several centuries later as the Empire beomes fragmented.  Good space opera, essentially the same premise as H Beam Piper's Cosmic Computer/Junkyard World, but with much more attention to combat operations.  Significant amount of space combat and planning as well as interplanetary intrigue.  Well worth reading if you like the milscifi genre.  But NOT a Horatio Hornblower clone.