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Jack Campbell
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 293 pages Rating: 3.95 | 25767 Users | 1522 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dauntless (The Lost Fleet #1) |
| Author | : | Jack Campbell |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 293 pages |
| Published | : | July 2006 by Ace Books (first published June 27th 2006) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Space. Space Opera. Fiction. War. Military Fiction |
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The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, beyond belief... Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics. Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend...Declare Books To Dauntless (The Lost Fleet #1)
| Original Title: | Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1) |
| ISBN: | 0441014186 (ISBN13: 9780441014187) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Lost Fleet #1, The Lost Fleet Universe |
| Setting: | Space |
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Ratings: 3.95 From 25767 Users | 1522 ReviewsCrit Of Books Dauntless (The Lost Fleet #1)
Black Jack Geary, famed commander from the beginning of the Syndic/Alliance war is back from the dead only to find that a hundred years of war have left his beloved fleet a shadow of its former self. Thrust into command of the bulk of the Alliance fleet, cut off behind enemy lines, he sets out trying to live up to his legend and to bring the fleet home alive.I started out pretty excited to read this book. It had received some decent reviews and appeared on a few Goodreads lists. Sadly, it didI have been hearing about this series forever. I'm generally somewhat indifferent to military SF spaceship battles alone are not particularly compelling to me, unless I'm controlling the ships in a game. Much of Dauntless seems inspired by spaceship combat games, where you get to build a fleet, choose your weapons, select leaders based on their attributes, and so on.The Alliance has been at war with the Syndics for a century now. Captain John Geary was in command during an early battle in that
Imagine if you spent 100 years in suspended animation and when you woke up, you find out that you had become a mythical hero to your people. That the discipline in the military you had known was lost and they justified all sort of terrible tactics in your name. And now a twist of fate left you in charge of a whole fleet with the responsibility to take them home.That's the situation that our hero, John "Black Jack" Geary finds himself in. After his survival pod is found 100-years later, Geary
How does a war last for one hundred years when one faction has obviously come down with a case of the terminally stupids? No, really, how does that happen? This book attempts to offer an explanation of how we arrive at this situation, but I can't buy it. The level of idiocy displayed by some of the characters in this story is so great, that I can't help but believe that the enemy faction should have wiped out the guys we are supposed to be cheering for long before the start of the book.The main
Exciting and engaging. Campbell makes his more "realistic" space combat every bit as tense and fun as the more fanciful space opera, proving it can be done. He does it very well, mixing it in with a clash of wills, personalities, and loyalties in a thrilling combination. One of my all-time favorite space opera / mil SF series.
Solid military science fiction, enjoyable but not mind blowing. Full review to come.3.5 stars.
"The Lost Fleet: Dauntless" (Lost Fleet #1) by Jack Campbell is the flagship of the Alliance fleet that rescues the almost dead stasis pod of John "Black Jack" Geary, posthumous Captain, one hundred years after his final battle, in charge of three ships. That first enemy surprise attack has not yet been explained. (view spoiler)[Evidence now points to another secret alien enemy, material for sequels. (hide spoiler)] His last order then, suited for the particular circumstance in time, has become
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