![]() It definitely falls into the MilFic category of Right vs. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is a difficult book to review, because I loved much of it, but other parts drove me to distraction. No known intelligent alien life is identified. Humans live in several interstellar nations that are divided into two blocks presently at war. ![]() Faster-than-Light Travel is possible through both jump points (read slow but still FTL travel through a ‘hyperspace’ style jump) and ‘hypernet’ (read FTL superhighways through space). Having said that, it also has the single most realistic and engaging space battles I have ever encountered.įar future, deep space with Earth playing no clear or significant part in the story. ![]() To that end, it is not so much an action adventure tale, as one about politics and the difficulties of command. Much of the book focuses on the protagonist, “Black Jack” Geary’s attempts to bring discipline and strategy back into the fleet. It is a straight serial Space Naval Military Science Fiction book that finds its hero in command of a fleet that is cut off and alone well behind enemy lines. The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is the first of six volumes in Jack Campbell’s ( aka John G. Grade: Δ - (Delta) A solid read, but only buy it if you like the genre. ![]() ( Science Fiction, Military Science Fiction) ![]()
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