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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780441014187
ISBN number: 0441014186
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: June 27, 2006
Publishing house: Ace
Sale Popularity Level: 1034
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The Alliance has been fighting the Syndic for a century-and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is Captain John 'Black Jack' Geary-a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. Now, he must live up to his own legend.
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Cpt. Geary is a man from a another century - literally. After having ejected from his ship holding off a Syndic surprise attack on the convoy he was escorting his survival pod was damaged and he floated in space for a century before an Alliance fleet found him and rivived him. He awakes to find that his last stand has been idealized to near-mtyhical proportions and himself a legendary hero. He is torn between his very human shortcomings as well as his legendary status.
A very good read - Jack Campbell blends in the space fleet combat flawlessy with life before and after combat. The fleets can be easily visualized in the style of Starship Troopers combat and are detailed.
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The book itself was interesting and forthcoming. Although the book would of been better if it had contained much more science fiction taste than military and war type tasteing. The battles were a bit to overaggagerated and to my opinion a bit corny. If the book went away from the fighting and battles for just a bit and went on to a different subject it wouldnt be as dry and boring as it is. The ending was very interesting and made me consider buying the second in the series. For once at the ending it went away from the battles and war. The ending also talks about something that would be considered very science fiction. It left you with questions that where needed to be anserwed and left you wandering. Overall, if your looking for the indepth sci-fi type tasting book I wouldnt reccomend this book. On the other hand if your looking for something with more war and fighting taste with just a touch of sci-fi I highly reccomend this book to you. To me this book was interesting but had to much war and fighting sequences talked about. The book was ok but not fantastic.
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Lost Fleet by Jack Campbell (the pen name of John Hemry) is a military sci-fi novel that revolves around the main character Captain John "Black Jack" Geary. Geary is war hero of historic proportions and the hero of the battle in the Grendel system. The Syndics (a human corporate empire) ambushed the Alliance at Grendel where Geary made himself famous with his heroic "last stand". Geary is thought to be lost in battle at the helm of his ship but a hundred years later an Alliance fleet finds Geary aboard an escape pod, in stasis.
Geary awakes to find that, shockingly, it's an entire century since he commanded the battle at Grendel and the war is still going. He is disturbed by the reaction the crews of the fleet have when they see him, after all he's the legendary "Black Jack". Crews swear by his name much in the same way people use the name "Jesus" in real life. This all disturbs Geary and in fact he finds it just plain annoying. As with most legends, Geary's has been inflated beyond how he can actually perform so he is constantly trying to point out that he is not the person they think he is.
Well, he gets little time to convince them otherwise: Shortly after he awakes the commander of the fleet and his staff are killed by the Syndics in an act of treachery. Admiral Bloch left Geary in charge of the fleet in his absence. Now in charge Geary mush lead the battered, out-gunned fleet home after their terrible defeat.
The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is a great example of Military Sci-Fi. Those who like John Scalzi should like Campbell's style of writing: not overly complicated and doesn't require a degree in physics to understand the technology. Good solid storytelling. The pacing of the story is outstanding and balanced. While there isn't as much combat in the book as one would suspect for this type of novel, Campbell manages to keep the pages turning with the subplots. Many of the subplots revolve around the logistics of running a fleet and managing problems with the crew.
Jack Geary is a very interesting character. Instead of the author pushing him as the "man god" Geary plays down his prowess and despises the legend worship he is met with. He struggles with grasping the new technology of the day and the culture of the fleet has completely changed.
While the setting is covered very thinly, there is enough to get an idea of the cultures of the two human factions involved in this book. Hopefully in future books we will get more background on the Alliance, Syndics, and the characters themselves.
Conclusion: If you like military Sci-Fi this book should be right up your alley. There's enough action, plenty of subplots and a really fun story to be find within the pages of this novel. I feel comfortable saying that Campbell is in the same class as Scalzi, Haldeman, and Ringo. If you like these authors, you should find Lost Fleet: Dauntless to your liking.
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"Campbell"'s novel is a thin volume that was interesting enough to finish but nowhere near as good as other SF novels I've read recently. I understand that "Campbell" is a pseudonym for a published author, and I think that's unfortunate. I don't believe this novel is worthy of allusion to the legacy of SF Grandmaster John W. Campbell. While the novel does suggest the storytelling of decades past, it neither capitalizes on the best aspects of Golden Age SF, nor justifies why it would do so via the story that is told.
For a novel that intends to cover so much ground, it is remarkably narrow in its characters, viewpoint, and settings. Much of the novel focuses exclusively on Captain Geary and his comings and goings on his ship. There are some large space battles, again seen mainly from the Captain's perspective, and visits to several star systems, but the limited point of view and simplistic characters remind me in many ways of teen lit. In fact, I would recommend it very highly for younger readers of SF, so I suppose I can understand the Heinlein comparisons by other reviewers.
But, there is an interesting background which isn't explored sufficiently. The prose is very stiff. The characterizations of ALL the main figures in the novel are weak. The fleet politics, which some apparently find fascinating, seemed relatively childish and simplistic to me. And finally, the battle scenes were almost painful to read, since every one brought to mind the slightly goofy, enormous (but groundbreaking... 70 years ago) battle scenes depicted by EE 'Doc' Smith in his Lensmen books. The main difference here is that Smith was covering new ground. One gets the impression that "Campbell" is trying to make the old sound new again, or worse yet, obscure the fact that he had nothing new to say in this regard.
In the end, I appreciate the novel's theme that we win a moral victory in addition to a combat trial when we maintain our honor, and this novel IS an easy read. In the end, I think the author had some interesting ideas but didn't develop them nearly as much as s/he should have. I'm also worried a bit by the praise this novel is receiving, because if this likable mediocrity earns high praise, how low are most readers' expectations for SF novels, these days?
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I will put this simple. The trilogy and one more due out in June 08 is one of the best I have read. It is very difficult to put down. In other words, get all three and wait for the fourth to come out.
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