From the Bookshelf: Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Upheaval

The ninth translated volume of Legend of the Galactic Heroes I understood to be the penultimate instalment in the series. “Don’t count the volumes until they’re in your hand” still hasn’t left my mind, but the ninth volume did at least move beyond “Yang Wen-li fights an endless rear-guard action against ever greater odds on the historically informed thought even his decayed and unworthy democracy might yet be more capable of regeneration than Reinhard von Lohengramm’s fresh, enlightened despotism is capable of maintaining its obvious excellence.” The “new territory” reached, even so, is events I’m already familiar with from having seen the anime adaptation. Still, some of the details to what I was expecting might have faded from my memory over time.
( More than one upheaval )