Japan - Legends of the Galactic Heroes (02: Ambition) - Yoshiki Tanaka 

Still sitting on the To Be Read pile.

 Japan - Legends of the Galactic Heroes (01: Dawn) - Yoshiki Tanaka 

I only discovered this book because of reading The Dark Forest as this book was refenced in the translators foot notes. It also was the next step in expanding my library of Sci-fi from around the world. I was given this book and Ambition (the second book in the series) These are nice short books and a welcome releif from the rather large and heavy books in The Three-Body Problem series.

The story itself was great, with crazy German names and titles that seemed to be plucked out of a Tolstoy novel. The book was super easy to read and a wonderful simplicity to this futurist world of battles that seemed to be re-enactments of classic Napoleonic battles, just played out with laser beams and spacecraft.

When I got the first two books, i had a quick look to see how many other books there are in the series. There are TEN! I now have two books in a series of ten sitting on my bookshelf. I can't cope with that. I need to buy the other eight! I'm going to use this series of books as a breather between some of the more heavy and 'chewy' books that I have lined up in my ever growing list of Sci-fi from around the world