Help Needed

[eccles_1960]

Hi folks, I need some help in finding a series of books I read a few years ago when I was working down in Australia. Just before I came home, I wrote the author and titles in my note book, and promptly left the notebook on board the vessel I was on.

Anyhoo, the plot went along the lines of a guy from a poor planet that gave him limited prospects, joins the space navy and works his way through the ranks. He achieved a military rank that belied his restricted birth right.

He fell in love with a woman, but they never married, there always seemed to be other more important considerations for both of them.

She went on to become an ambassador, and they met often as the series went on, and they continued their affair even after the woman did marry.

I can remember that the descriptions of the Navy ships were quite vivid, especially the anti gravity docks they had to use on the planets they visited because of the ships' huge size.

Not a lot to go on I'm afraid.

I know that the books are not the ones by David Fenteuch, or by Richard Stotts.

Any pointers graciously received

[WolvenShaman]

Blast-- those sound really good. I'll be watching to see if anyone comes up with an answer, so I can skitter out and grab them too

[Esioul]

I hate it when I vaguley remember a book I enjoyed, but can't remember the title or the author. I have loads of memories of books like that, and it drives me mad.

[The Master™]

Sounds a little like "Bio of a Space Tyrant" by Piers Anthony... But some of the things you've said don't sound quite right...

Sorry, best I can offer...

[Princess Ivy]

Sounds a bit like one of the Wies/Hickman efforts that I read ages ago, cannot remember the titles but I remember that they had swords that pricked their hands and injected a poison that only nobility could tolerate? Sound right?

[Lord Bish]

The saga of Miles Vorkosigan by Louis M. Bujold?

The main character is a "criple" because of genetical malformations dued to a poison attack while his mother was pregnant. And his father is a regent of that planet.
Anyhow the book is awsome even if it's not the one you thought of.