The Lost Fleet: Dauntless
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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 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 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....
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Military mindset and decision making
This is what the author was meant to write. With his background in military he found a way to display the hard decisions with their uncertainty and considerations in every scene of the book. The downside? It is that. Military grade relationship display. There is no deep relationship or background to any character. The focus is on the battles and the next move of the fleet to get home and that can become boring. The protagonist was asleep for years and is now considered a hero. Reawakened behind enemy lines the pace at which he is assigned control of the fleet is a turn down in the first five pages. Now he has to proof himself, aquire trust in those who doubt his legacy and hero status and needs to live up to it. If you want something similar but with more character depth I would recommend murderbot.
German Review on GosuReviews I decided to do a review of the whole series(books 1-6) here, because all the books are relatively short. These were the first books I read of John G. Hemry under his pseudonym Jack Campbell. He writes very gripping hard SciFi and I loved the enormous space battle scenarios throughout the book. Especially all the little nuances that get often times inadequately handled in other SciFi books. For example the time delay that orders take to travel within a fleet that is stretched over light minutes and a whole new approach to space battles, where these delays have an enormous influence. After having read this series I think you will look more skeptically on space battles in other scifi books. All this is very well explained and gives the series a unique feeling. The Story is very clever done, with a believable plot, a troubling history and an amazing side plot that slowly( maybe too slowly) develops in the background. I also enjoyed the three main characters, who get a fair bit of development, but get sadly stuck halfway through the series and their interactions in the later parts get very repetitive. And boy can this author write antagonists, very despicable opponents throughout. These repetitions are the main weakness of the series in my opinion. Everything is very interesting in the beginning is very entertaining because it's new, but if you get a description of how Geary feels about the conference software in every book it kind of sucks. There are quite a few of these explaining repetitions throughout the books, that stand out if you read the six books back to back. The fault for this lies for me in the fact, that these books are so damn short and should have been written as a trilogy and edited accordingly. This leads to a little lull in the action in book three and four. What happens in the last too books is then up to par again. Okay that got a little bit longer than I expected so here a tl;dr: Great hard SciFi with amazingly innovative space battles and a gripping story.
Description
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 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 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....
Book Information
Posts
Military mindset and decision making
This is what the author was meant to write. With his background in military he found a way to display the hard decisions with their uncertainty and considerations in every scene of the book. The downside? It is that. Military grade relationship display. There is no deep relationship or background to any character. The focus is on the battles and the next move of the fleet to get home and that can become boring. The protagonist was asleep for years and is now considered a hero. Reawakened behind enemy lines the pace at which he is assigned control of the fleet is a turn down in the first five pages. Now he has to proof himself, aquire trust in those who doubt his legacy and hero status and needs to live up to it. If you want something similar but with more character depth I would recommend murderbot.
German Review on GosuReviews I decided to do a review of the whole series(books 1-6) here, because all the books are relatively short. These were the first books I read of John G. Hemry under his pseudonym Jack Campbell. He writes very gripping hard SciFi and I loved the enormous space battle scenarios throughout the book. Especially all the little nuances that get often times inadequately handled in other SciFi books. For example the time delay that orders take to travel within a fleet that is stretched over light minutes and a whole new approach to space battles, where these delays have an enormous influence. After having read this series I think you will look more skeptically on space battles in other scifi books. All this is very well explained and gives the series a unique feeling. The Story is very clever done, with a believable plot, a troubling history and an amazing side plot that slowly( maybe too slowly) develops in the background. I also enjoyed the three main characters, who get a fair bit of development, but get sadly stuck halfway through the series and their interactions in the later parts get very repetitive. And boy can this author write antagonists, very despicable opponents throughout. These repetitions are the main weakness of the series in my opinion. Everything is very interesting in the beginning is very entertaining because it's new, but if you get a description of how Geary feels about the conference software in every book it kind of sucks. There are quite a few of these explaining repetitions throughout the books, that stand out if you read the six books back to back. The fault for this lies for me in the fact, that these books are so damn short and should have been written as a trilogy and edited accordingly. This leads to a little lull in the action in book three and four. What happens in the last too books is then up to par again. Okay that got a little bit longer than I expected so here a tl;dr: Great hard SciFi with amazingly innovative space battles and a gripping story.