In fact the easiest way to describe the book, is to use Star Wars as a frame of reference.
Throughout the book, I had to mentally keep reminding myself of that, steeped as my consciousness was in Star Wars lore. There isn't much more info in this first book of the series about the actual entities or political make-up behind the names other than that the Coalition seem to be "the bad guys". This is set far, far into the future, where the known "universe" is ruled by the "Coalition", after overthrowing the previous "Empire". The new cover is a big improvement and looks much more "sci-fi-y", though it's still on the bland side and shows a somewhat sanitized version of the rough, dusty (and that's a huge understatement!) surface of the book's main setting, a mining settlement called Newburg, and none of the rough and tumble of that underworld where all the action takes place. It just doesn't do the sophisticated writing justice. One look at the old edition cover and I realized why, lol. I don't normally pass up lesfic sci-fi offerings, as they're as rare as the perfect black opals everyone in the book is lusting after.
When the opportunity to read the revised version of this book came up, I wondered why I hadn't gotten my hands on the original edition.
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