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India Press Store - Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)
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Manufacturer: Ace
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441014187
ISBN: 0441014186
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2006-06-27
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
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Summary: Should be a trilogy - not a 6 book series
Comment: I read the first four books in about 3 weeks. They are enjoyable, if you can put up with all of the repetitions. For example, every book talks about Captain Geary's century long hibernation; and every book explains how the virtual conference room works. It's like the author thinks readers are going to jump into the series without first reading book 1.
Dauntless and Fearless should have been combined into book 1. Courageous and Valiant should have been combined into book 2. Then the final 2 books should be book 3.
The cover art also bothers me. Every book has Captain Geary dressed up as if he were a marine. At no time in all 4 books did he carry a gun!
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Summary: A series starter which makes you want to keep going
Comment: I've never been a huge reader of the type of scifi story this book represents - meaning military oriented - though I have long enjoyed those with a more social focus (Dune, Childe Cycle). I enjoyed reading Dauntless, though. It's a definite "reluctant hero" story, and it at times gets a little bit too heavy with the internal dialog in that regard, but overall I found the pace good. The inclusion of time lag in terms of communications and data gathering (like ship locations in combat situations) and other issues related to dealing with the vastness of space was something interesting that I haven't seen before in other books or movies. Overall, Dauntless kept me engaged and eager to read more. Just be aware that it's clearly the start of a story, not a stand alone one unto itself. The ending is rather like that of a mini-series episode.
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Summary: Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1)
Comment: How best to put this, I wonder. When I purchased Dauntless, I was basically (as I do from time to time) sampling another POTENTIAL author, with the interest of perhaps picking up another interesting series to follow. After reading it, I immediately ordered the other 3 titles available, and upon receiving my order, I read them all, cover to cover, back to back. A couple of late nights and bleary eyes at work the next day were all deemed *completely* worth it. I can't put it better than that, but allow me to go into a few details (which I am sure that you, the review-reader, will appreciate).
One aspect of this novel which I find comfortable and endearing, is the occasional (sometimes frequent) monologues or mental footnotes expressed by the main protagonist, Captain Geary. That feature alone serves to catapult me into the 'book-world' pages into it, and more so, into the 'Geary-space' as it makes it all seem so very personal. Reading Dauntless is like playing ghost to the life and deeds of Captain Geary, and what a life it is indeed.
I was tempted to say that sadly not much is shown of the crew of Dauntless, or of the other ships in the fleet, but I realise that that is yet another plus for the book; there is very little extraneous detail to follow or keep track of, as is the case with some other authors. Often, with other novels I am tempted to fast forward through/past some event occurring with some other character other than one of the one to four that I peg as Persons Of Exceptional Interest, or Contributing Members of the Book Cast. Not so with Dauntless. Jack Campbell has managed to completely fill 4 novels with little more than details which could be described by "What Happened to Captain John Geary?" Make no mistake though, Captain Geary's primary concern at any given time is for the safety and salvation/success of the fleet he finds himself leading, but Mr. Campbell has managed to present the story of The Lost Fleet as viewed by Captain Geary in a very comfortable manner.
This is one of the most rewarding reads I have had in a long time, and serves to fill a void I hadn't noticed was there in my reading diet. Jack Campbell (and Captain John Geary), like David Weber (Honor Harrington), is in fine form with this series of Space Opera/Military Science Fiction.
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Summary: Not recommended for anybody over the age of 16
Comment: To be fair the rating I gave for the book does not consider that as an adult I consider this pure drivel. My rating is for the teens or under that this book is more suited for. If you are an adult looking for military Sci-Fi I would skip this. I like a little challenge, intriguing ideas and concepts and this book has none of that.
If you are an early teen or younger then this is quite possibly something that you would enjoy but if you are an adult or in your late teens you have been warned and don't blame me for the time you wasted reading Dauntless.
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Summary: Satisfying Space Opera
Comment: Light, fast and satisfying.
An enjoyable romp. Not as dark as much recent Space Opera has been (I'm looking at you, Banks and Reynolds). More on the military side of the street, this book follows John "Black Jack" Geary, a historical captain found in a lifepod a century after his time. He's rescued by his own fleet and find that things have not changed much since he left. The same war continues and his people are still in it.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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