false 112292 6 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. 108122 27 6 2006 Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) total:425|5:81|4:202|3:111|2:22|1:9| 425 1599 545 76 4 0 false false Thu Mar 26 16:25:47 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 16:26:12 -0700 2009
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Warnings: Battle descriptions and allusions to sexual encounters


Jack Geary is on a routine training mission with his fleet when they come under attack on their border with the Syndicate, another human-held area of space. Hi...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 17:23:19 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 17:30:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 14:55:27 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 22:18:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:26:12 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 15:32:46 -0800 2009
I bought this book for... uh... myself (sort of) because it was recommended by an author I like and beca...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 11:01:14 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 06:34:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 28 13:27:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 10:53:53 -0700 2009
I'm glad I did.

The book is essentially an excuse for Campbell to have pages and pages of ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 10:25:24 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 04:46:22 -0700 2009 The Onion Girl! Just what the doctor ordered.

"Black" Jack Geary is an ancient hero of a 100 year war between two galaxy-spanning tribes of humans -- the Alliance (good guys) and the Syndicate Worlds (bad guys). Jack was presumed to have died in an early batt...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 20 07:40:59 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 18:41:27 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 07:08:57 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 07:46:25 -0700 2009
The idea with the "famous captain from the past" is not bad but the author makes no real use of the SF genre. The world-building is poor with no information how it's like to live in the futur...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 18:49:50 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 19:09:09 -0700 2009
The reason I'm going to read the next in the series is because the interplay between characters, as w...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 05:22:31 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 13:16:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 06:31:07 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 06 07:00:30 -0700 2008
This is very much in the military space opera subcategory of scifi. I found it quite entertaining, and will download more books from the series. The reader was quite good, there was l...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 08:24:43 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 02 08:34:18 -0700 2008
The Alliance Fleet has just suffered a crushing defeat and the senior officers are off to negotiate surrender, leaving a recently found (after nearly a century in an escape pod) John "Black Jack" Geary in charge...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 10:13:40 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 00:19:33 -0700 2008
A war between the Alliance and the Syndic had been raging for a cen...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 10 21:08:12 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 13:32:44 -0800 2008 Sins of a Solar Empire. Although this book has no connection with that game, it is exactly how I picture the game.

If you like strategy and tactics, then thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 09:09:44 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 11 07:26:46 -0700 2008
In this book, the hero is John "Black Jack" Geary who has been rescued by the fleet he was part of a hundred years in the future from hibernation. He finds tha...more...]]>