396 pages
English language
Published Feb. 5, 2000 by Baen Books, Distributed by Simon & Schuster.
Against the Odds is a science fiction novel by Elizabeth Moon. It is her seventh and last novel set in the Familias Regnant fictional universe. It does not fall in either informal trilogy (the Heris Serrano and the Esmay Suiza trilogies); fittingly it does not focus on any particular character, instead a more general, almost kaleidoscopic perspective of the upheaval in the Familias Regnant, and the rise to power of a new and more capable Speaker. It can be seen as a conclusion to the series, resolving or at least making a good start at resolving many issues and peoples and ending as it does on a memorializing elegiac note.
I really enjoyed this book, it was kind of like the last one, just that more of the small stories were better than in that one, and it didn't use as long to get going.
