Star Surgeon Book

Interesting space opera novel, with a hero with an Arcturian name (Bors) who fights an empire against all odds with the help of a set of freakies (Talents, Inc.) who are able to "predict" things such as the arrival of a space ship or who will marry who:-)

The plot is interesting, with a very little Arcturian king (Humphrey VIII) who is always gloomy, interprets all victories as though they were defeats, and is ready to surrender when everything is on his side.

There are a few naive points (such as the use of paper for archives in the far future, or the fact that important technical advances are always made by the smaller party - I know, with the help of Talents, Inc.), but some of them can be attributed to the time (it's very difficult to make predictions, specially about the future), and the others can be included in the general suspension of incredulity by the reader.