Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1)

Posted on 12 June 2017 by Jack Campbell

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 beliefCaptain 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 Best Download [ Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, #1) ] by [ Jack Campbell ] – kino-fada.fr Hey It s a space story with Marines and no vagina plotlines And I REALLY LOVED IT This is the first in a series of a hero brought back from stasis to save the universe I loved the world, the space fights, the manly commanding of Jack, the idea of a mythical hero that is ac...Sagas wouldn t be interesting if terrible things didn t happen to the people in them Captain John Black Jack Geary won his accolades after defending a convoy of Alliance transports against an attack from the Syndicate Worlds Believed killed in action, he was given the rank of honorary admiral, and subsequently declared a war hero and an example for future generations of Alliance sailors to live by But a hundred years later, Alliance warships pick up an escape pod in outer space, and find aSagas wouldn t be interesting if terrible things didn t happen to the people in them Captain John Black Jack Geary won his accolades after defending a convoy of Alliance transports against an attack from the Syndicate Worlds Believed killed in action, he was given the rank of honorary admiral, and subsequently declared a war hero and an example for future generations of Alliance sailors to live by But a hundred years later, Alliance warships pick up an escape pod in outer space, and find a body who s been lying in stasis since the beginning of the conflict.Geary awakens to see a galaxy that has been torn apart by total war The Alliance fights an endless struggle against the Syndicate Worlds, until a daring strike at the enemy homeworld is attempted But the Alliance fleet is led into a trap, all its commanding officers are killed, and slowly all the remaining captains realise that the only man with the rank to take command of the lost fleet is Honorary Admiral Geary Inspired by Xenophon ... Until I came back, like some ancient general who remembers ways of fighting that the barbarians forgot long ago.I rarely pick up military sci fi, but when I do I end up enjoying it immensely As long as it doesn t involve rape either as a rape fellow soldiers because they are female or rape as a weapon of war This book chose not to have any rape in it, and as a result I enjoyed it thoroughly, just as I d hoped I would.Captain John Black Jack Geary has just been awakened from cryosleep after Until I came back, like some ancient general who remembers ways of fighting that the barbarians forgot long ago.I rarely pick up military sci fi, but when I do I end up enjoying it immensely As long as it doesn t involve rape either as a rape fellow soldiers because they are female or rape as a weapon of war This book chose not to have any rape in it, and as a result I enjoyed it thoroughly, just as I d hoped I would.Captain John Black Jack Geary has just been awakened from cryosleep after 100 years, only to find that he has become legend Awe inspiring and held up as an ideal of courage and strength, the vessel that picked him up the Dauntless is ecstatic to have him on board.The war Geary was fightin...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 did no 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 did not live up to the hype The premise is forced a long lost hero thrust into command of a trapped fleet but I found that I could actually accept that part of the story It was the premise, unlikely but once you got past it everything should have been fine But it wasn t Campbell continues to build up Geary s ...3.5 Stars Dauntless was an enjoyable naval adventure in space that ignored depth and challenging complexity in favour of cool tech and massive space battles A hundred years ago the Syndicate worlds launched a deadly surprise attack on a small convoy of Alliance ships, igniting a terrible war In command of the small Alliance convoy was Captain Black Jack Geary Under his inspired leadership the majority of the convoy was saved, however Captain Geary was lost with his ship Remembered in the A 3.5 Stars Dauntless was an enjoyable naval adventure in space that ignored depth and challenging complexity in favour of cool tech and massive space battles A hundred years ago the Syndicate worlds launched a deadly surprise attack on a small convoy of Alliance ships, igniting a terrible war In command of the sm...Dauntless was just what the doctor ordered The last couple of books that I read were slow, plodding things all about immersion and realism All of that was great, but sometimes I want a book to reach out of the cover and slap me in the face with bigger than life action Rest assured, Dauntless delivered.Black Jack Geary is picked up by a passing Alliance warships Frozen for a hundred years in de...Originally reviewed in 2011updated in 2014I like having an audio book on when I m doing things that require little or no thoughtof course I listen when I m working on leather crafts Could that explain the number of unfinished mistakes in that lower drawer Oh well, back to the subject at hand.I recently finished the 6th Honor Harrington book and thought it somewhat of a come down from the earlier onesreally She seemed to be closing in on Super Woman status When I read the synopsis o Originally reviewed in 2011updated in 2014I like having an audio book on when I m doing things that require little or no thoughtof course I listen when I m working on leather crafts Could that explain the number of unfinished mistakes in that lower drawer Oh well, back to the subject at hand.I recently finished the 6th Honor Harrington book and thought it somewhat of a come down from the earlier onesreally She seemed to be closing in on Super Woman status When I read the synopsis of the next it was justthan I could bear Maybein a few months, after I ve recovered a bit from the last Anyway, in the meantime I wanted a different audio book and Audible had an add for one of Jack Campbell s a pen name of John G Hemry Lost Fleet books So, being me I went to Audible and found the FIRST of the series.Great bookespecially considering the last space opera I listened to was long winded, c...Well, I tried Listened to 3 4ths of the book and stopped Many folks love it, but it s just not my kind of space opera UnlikeThe Vorkosigan Series, by Lois McMaster Bujold, or even The Liaden Universe,by Lee and Miller, there is insufficient character or relationship development Instead, military protocols, jockeying for position, and battles Some cool scenes Some good battle strategy The author embeds a few navigational and tactical ideas about long distance, time relative battle plann Well, I tried Listened to 3 4ths of the book and stopped Many folks love it, but it s just not my kind of space opera UnlikeThe Vorkosigan Series, by Lois McMaster Bujold, or even The Liaden Universe,by Lee and Miller, there is insufficient character or relationship development Instead, military protocols, jockeying for position, and battles Some cool scenes Some good battle strategy The author embeds a few navigational and tactical ideas about long distance, time relative battle planning, etc It started out fine, but I gradually grew weary of Commander Geary It s all his POV, but IMO, he s not all that interesting He thinks too much about every decision, every response, and his thoughts are fully spelled out, redundant, and monotonous The author needs to leave ...No Can t do it Shelving this as unfinished after 25%.The audio narration by Christian Rummel was bland The dialogue was bland And Captain John Geary didn t grab me.The writing style reminded me a little of C J Cherryh s Downbelow Station If you like her writing style and you like military sci fi then this may appeal to you I didn t care that much for Downbelow Station either but I persisted with it and ended up enjoying it well enough But that was in another time before I listened to my No Can t do it Shelving this as unfinished after 25%.The audio narration by Christian Rummel was bland The dialogue was bland And Captain John Geary didn t grab me.The writing style reminded me a little of C J Cherryh s Downbelow Station If you like her writing style and you like military sci fi then this may appeal to you I didn t care that much for Downbelow Station either but I persisted with it and ended up enjoying it well eno...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 lea 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 terr...

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12 June 2017

Jack Campbell