The Lost Stars: Tarnished Knight (Hardcover) by Jack Campbell

from bensdad00

An offshoot of his Lost Fleet novels, with this first in a new series Campbell takes his now-familiar universe and explores it from a new angle. By focusing on the heretofore antagonists, he humanizes what were up to this point a fairly monolithic and cartoonish enemy force. There is quite clearl...

from Ailinel

Tarnished Knight begins a second series taking place concurrently with the Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier novels. It follows the CEOs Draken and Iceni (later General and President respectively) as they lead Midway's revolt against Syndicate control. Feeling their way through new concepts and ide...

from Dragget

In an interesting spinoff from his Lost Fleet Series, Campbell takes Aurthurian Legend and uses it as the basis for this story about two leaders: Artur Drakon = Arthur Pendragon, Gwen Icheni = Guinevere, Morgan = Morgana LeFay, Malin = Merlin... (there are other names like this as well if you loo...

from bgknighton

A view of life in the changing Syndicate worlds. Gen Drakon and Admiral Gwen Iceni are CEOs who have made hard choices to survive in the snake pit that was the Syndicate system -- where every thought, word or action could be used against you. Drakon is still trying to be a good man and Iceni is l...

from Con.Rad

Solid space opera with a lot of political subterfuge and characters written as emerging from a toalitarian state that had failed them, to re-discovering how to rule humanely.