A review by bethmitcham
Ascendant by Jack Campbell

4.0

I enjoyed this latest Lost Worlds story a lot. It has four main characters, one the standard Campbell space captain, the other a standard marine. But the two civilians (although one ends up back in an armed force) stretch him in new and interesting ways -- the civilian failure determined to succeed (and who keeps ending up in situations where young women pretend to have affairs with him), and the ex-hood who knows the real costs of social disintegration and is willing to fight to prevent it.