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Victorious (The Lost Fleet #6)
The Lost Fleet: Relentless found its way onto the New York Times bestseller list...
Now Victorious leads the charge again-and "Black Jack" Geary is in command...
As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him t...more
Now Victorious leads the charge again-and "Black Jack" Geary is in command...
As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him t...more
Paperback, 352 pages
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April 27th 2010
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Jan 10, 2013
Mike (the Paladin)
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5 of 5 stars
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Okay...great book, great series. I almost went down to 4 stars because of the continuing underlying love story, the unspoken (because of honor) love of Black Jack ("I'm not Black Jack") for the Captain. Still, handled well and I got passed it. At least it wasn't still with our resident politician who has been one of the great annoyances in this series, neither did the love story overwhelm the storyline.
Still one of the better military/semi-space opera reads I've come across. Dealing with two lo...more
Still one of the better military/semi-space opera reads I've come across. Dealing with two lo...more
Ce sixième tome clôture réellement (par opposition aux fausses fins de ... par exemple ... la pénible sage d'Honor Harrington) les aventures de Jack Geary, capitaine (et ensuite amiral) de la flotte, qui a botté les fesses des syndics à peu près partout où il passait, pour finir par les forcer à la paix dans leur système spatial central. Evidement, la bataille sera monumentale, mais elle ne sera rien à côté de deux phénomèmes si typiques de ce genre de SF : l'attaque des méchants extra-terrestre...more
Not a bad way to end the six book series at all. I clearly see how the writer leads into the next little sub-series set in this universe and I'm absolutely sure that I will be reading those as well although this is a good breaking point for a while so that I don't get too burned out. Too much of a series can be a bad thing.
As usual, if you're a fan of military science fiction you won't be disappointed with this book. Campbell does a really good job of making his characters seem human even when,...more
As usual, if you're a fan of military science fiction you won't be disappointed with this book. Campbell does a really good job of making his characters seem human even when,...more
All things come to an end in this volume of Black Jack's voyages. I was a bit surprised that the event I was most looking forward to was the least thrilling. In fact I would say it was dull beyond comparison.
For all the mystery and intrigue that revolved around the alien's motives. There was nothing at the end, just a feeble conflict(if you can call it that).
The real fight came in the form of the Syndic last stand. It begun with a beautiful setup, then disintegrated. I don't know how there could...more
For all the mystery and intrigue that revolved around the alien's motives. There was nothing at the end, just a feeble conflict(if you can call it that).
The real fight came in the form of the Syndic last stand. It begun with a beautiful setup, then disintegrated. I don't know how there could...more
Victorious is a good conclusion to Jack Campbell's The Lost Fleet series, turning it from being about a war against a human enemy to being the beginning of a conflict with an alien one. There were a few times that that turning point felt a little anticlimactic because almost all the fighting that brings an end to the war happens in the first five books, but the final battle in the Syndic home system was plenty serious enough to at least make the Alliance victory satisfying. Although (view spoile...more
Book six of ‘The Lost Fleet’ series sees Captain ‘Black Jack’ Geary finally back in Alliance space where he is promoted to fleet admiral – even though the ruling council are terrified that he may stage a military coup.
Geary’s new rank means that he has the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. Geary leads the fleet out all too aware that a greater alien threat lurks on the far side of Syndic occupied space.
I confes...more
Geary’s new rank means that he has the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. Geary leads the fleet out all too aware that a greater alien threat lurks on the far side of Syndic occupied space.
I confes...more
So that's that. Victorious ending the six part saga with great penance and brilliance. A great ending to a great series.
At first when I started this book I was somewhat put off by it's contents; the Lost Fleet had seemingly finished the main aim of the series, yet somehow Campbell/Hemry was adding another one on. While I admit that there were loose ends to tie up, I was wary that it may have been another way of squeezing some more mileage from the story. What's more, this feeling that it wa...more
At first when I started this book I was somewhat put off by it's contents; the Lost Fleet had seemingly finished the main aim of the series, yet somehow Campbell/Hemry was adding another one on. While I admit that there were loose ends to tie up, I was wary that it may have been another way of squeezing some more mileage from the story. What's more, this feeling that it wa...more
I found the author's habit of constantly repeating what had gone before or how things worked was really wearing a trifle thin. Do we honestly need to know how the conferencing software works every time the hero has a conference? Why do I have to be told ever other chapter that Black Jack woke up after a hundred years in survival sleep? I can understand that the author does it so new readers can just pick up the book but there really is a limit to how much is required. You can't help but being le...more
A somehow abrupt ending after an epic series of books, somehow you can feel that the author ran out of steam to produce some truly 'alien' aliens at the end of the series which is only a disappointment considering how truly unknowable they were made to appear over the previous 5 books. Still, the shattering of the mystery doesn't take anything away from the achievements of the finest space captain ever to calibrate a dephased photon array, Black Jack Geary. A fun end to my current favourite seri...more
Finally, it is over. This series should have been half the size it ended up being. Why, because it repeated. Then the next failing of the author, it repeated. So all these extra pages, were just rehashes of scenes that had already taken place with a new noun to show that it was a different place, but the same thing happening, or all the characters talking about how that thing that happened before was just like this, or do you remember the thing that happened, let me refresh your memory by descri...more
A satisfying end to the 6 book series. The depictions of space warfare are very similar to what C. J. Cherryh showed us in her Company Wars series. Except that Cherryh's stories were almost always dealing with one or a handful of ships. The Lost Fleet series shows space warfare from a Fleet Commander's seat.
But the basics are about the same, Missiles/Rockets and Simple weapons like "Grapeshot" (just large ball bearings shot like buckshot, only at traveling at something like .1 light speed), with...more
But the basics are about the same, Missiles/Rockets and Simple weapons like "Grapeshot" (just large ball bearings shot like buckshot, only at traveling at something like .1 light speed), with...more
ok then instead of writing a review for each book I've decided that I am going to sum things up in this one compiled version, cause honestly the issues are the same in all six books
Right off the bat the main problem I have with this series is it being six books, it could easily have been completed in three.
Another problem I had was the lack of depth in the crew and other supporting characters in the book, the writer had 6 books to give them more of a say and story but nope, it was only the hero...more
Right off the bat the main problem I have with this series is it being six books, it could easily have been completed in three.
Another problem I had was the lack of depth in the crew and other supporting characters in the book, the writer had 6 books to give them more of a say and story but nope, it was only the hero...more
Victorious, how aptly named, in that that’s pretty much the only thing that happened, victory. Yay? Well, no. Not yay because it’s not interesting. The odds throughout the story continually change drastically in the favor of the Alliance fleet to the point where nothing is a real challenge anymore, and anything that potentially posed itself as a problem was either too big to actually fight or an act of deception. It’s impossible to fight the story-equivalent of a nuclear bomb once it’s already d...more
Victorious
The Lost Fleet Book 6
By Jack Campbell
A Review by Eric Allen
I promised a real review on the final book of The Lost Fleet, no matter how much repeating of points made in my review of the first book I may have to do, and here it is.
After months of fighting their way through Syndic space, the Alliance Fleet under the command of Captain Geary has at last reached home. His fleet is all but out of fuel, has sustained massive damage, and taken heavy losses. But in doing so, they have crippled...more
The Lost Fleet Book 6
By Jack Campbell
A Review by Eric Allen
I promised a real review on the final book of The Lost Fleet, no matter how much repeating of points made in my review of the first book I may have to do, and here it is.
After months of fighting their way through Syndic space, the Alliance Fleet under the command of Captain Geary has at last reached home. His fleet is all but out of fuel, has sustained massive damage, and taken heavy losses. But in doing so, they have crippled...more
Final book in the series and much of my earlier thoughts still apply. Fortunately the adventure took a slightly different turn for this episode (each book does feel like a thick episode of a show). One of my earlier comments suggested that knowing the titles of some of the later books in the next series had led me to expect a certain outcome from this particular series. As it turns out my thoughts on where this adventure would lead turned out to be incorrect.
Overall I fair enjoyed this set of 6...more
Overall I fair enjoyed this set of 6...more
Look, the title of the book tells you what happens. There are really no surprises here. It's a nice wrap-up of the series, but this book lacks so many dramatic military engagements that were in the other books. (If those were your favorite parts, you might not like this book.)
The series gets more or less wrapped up, Black Jack saves the day, and after it all, there is a completely ridiculous scene straight out of a rom-com. It seemed a little out of character for the gruff military SF feeling,...more
The series gets more or less wrapped up, Black Jack saves the day, and after it all, there is a completely ridiculous scene straight out of a rom-com. It seemed a little out of character for the gruff military SF feeling,...more
Mar 09, 2012
David
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
science-fiction,
2012-reading-challenge
The final book in Jack Campbell (the pen name of John Hemry)'s The Lost Fleet series, Victorious sees 'Black Jack' Geary returning to where the series started: back to the Syndic's Home System. While the last 5 books in the series ahve all dealt with the long retreat home (even if the Alliance Fleet never believed it was, or called it as such, and which ended in the finale of The Lost Fleet: Relentless), this sees that fleet go on the offensive in a bid to end the century-old war.
Without giving...more
Without giving...more
I've enjoyed this series all the way through from the first book to the sixth (and what COULD be) the last.
I like the main character, John "Black Jack" Geary. I like the supporting cast. I like the logistics and tactics of warfare that are used in the above average space combat scenes. I really enjoy the diplomacy.
There are exactly two scenes that take place off of the battle cruiser, "Dauntless" in the entire series - both of them in this book. But despite that, it works well to tell the strugg...more
I like the main character, John "Black Jack" Geary. I like the supporting cast. I like the logistics and tactics of warfare that are used in the above average space combat scenes. I really enjoy the diplomacy.
There are exactly two scenes that take place off of the battle cruiser, "Dauntless" in the entire series - both of them in this book. But despite that, it works well to tell the strugg...more
With the completion of this series, I realize that I want more of it. It isn't too often that I encounter a book series that manages to keep me interested this long. The writing has remained consistent and engaging through out, never once getting bogged down in minutiae that don't really add to progressing the story line in some fashion. The good news is that the author has already started a follow-on series that picks up where this one leaves off. Fortunately, this one ends on such a good note,...more
I'm really sorry to see this series end. It has been an enjoyable ride since the very first book. I've loved to watch all the myriad ways that Black Jack Geary has pulled the Alliance fleet's butt out of the fire time and again. The series has been realistic in that not everyone lives but it hasn't been so maudlin and depressing with everyone dieing so that you couldn't enjoy it either.
This book started a little slow but once they left Alliance space and headed out things picked right up. Good s...more
This book started a little slow but once they left Alliance space and headed out things picked right up. Good s...more
Well... it's all in the title, you will not be overly surprised by the end of the story. You will still enjoy the trip to the Syndicate main star system with Admiral-whatever-his-title Geary.
I could not help but feel a bit disappointed by this book compared to the previous ones. Possibly, it's because the fleet is not facing destruction in such a direct way as in the previous books (well, kind of...). I may have become like of the fleet officers, believing so much that Black Jack Gearay can make...more
I could not help but feel a bit disappointed by this book compared to the previous ones. Possibly, it's because the fleet is not facing destruction in such a direct way as in the previous books (well, kind of...). I may have become like of the fleet officers, believing so much that Black Jack Gearay can make...more
Feb 06, 2012
Jacob Proffitt
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
sci fi fans and military geeks of all stripes.
Shelves:
sci-fi
Good wrap up, and about what you'd expect given the series so far. Jack Campbell manages to surprise me, now and then. And I like that, though sometimes I can't believe how clueless Geary can be. (view spoiler)
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The conclusion of Campbell's Lost Fleet series. It's possible he may come back with a new series in the same universe, but this one's done.
So, in the last book, the fleet made it back home, but Captain Black Jack Geary wants to go back and defeat the Syndic home world and force an end to the century-old war. He also wants to do something about the aliens who have perhaps manipulated humanity into this war, and who have at the least manipulated events during the Alliance Fleet's escape. This book...more
So, in the last book, the fleet made it back home, but Captain Black Jack Geary wants to go back and defeat the Syndic home world and force an end to the century-old war. He also wants to do something about the aliens who have perhaps manipulated humanity into this war, and who have at the least manipulated events during the Alliance Fleet's escape. This book...more
I've really, really enjoyed this series and this 6th and final book (in the main series) does everything a good climactic installment should.
Through the series there have been the odd niggle (writing has sometimes seemed dry, the battles were occasionally a little confusing, and some of the dialogue could be a bit on the clunky side). Campbell has grown more and more confident with all of these aspects as the series has gone on, it's been great to see those niggles improve with each book and 'V...more
Through the series there have been the odd niggle (writing has sometimes seemed dry, the battles were occasionally a little confusing, and some of the dialogue could be a bit on the clunky side). Campbell has grown more and more confident with all of these aspects as the series has gone on, it's been great to see those niggles improve with each book and 'V...more
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A terrific resolution to the series. This is one series I was disappointed to finish because now I don't have another book to look forward to anymore. I've been looking forward to moving on to the next book for awhile now, and it's been very pleasurable.
This resolution is almost perfect, in my opinion. I was very happy with the way he brought everything together, although to tie up all the loose ends in one book things had to move from one to the next very quickly, and it seemed a bit forced, bu...more
This resolution is almost perfect, in my opinion. I was very happy with the way he brought everything together, although to tie up all the loose ends in one book things had to move from one to the next very quickly, and it seemed a bit forced, bu...more
The conclusion of the original six-book arc of Jack Campbell's "Lost Fleet" series ties up the main ends in a satisfying way. Another plus is that the overall quality of the books has continued to grow. The space battles, which are the main driving force of the series, are kept interesting by constantly changing strategies and tactics, and situations. Not only does this one tie up the war with the Syndics, but also opens the way for the follow-up series, "Beyond the Frontier". One small caveat I...more
Great series, great book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. His futuristic yet realistic writing captivates me into believing this will someday be how the human race lives. Slowly over the dawn of man people have transgressed slowly to the next feat of public transportation. NOT PRIVATE ENTERPRISES such as NASA. The secret love affair between John Geary and Tanya Desjani throughout the last three books of the series has the perfect ending, givin this series is...more
Book number 6.
In which Admiral Geary, fresh on the heels of his victorious return to Alliance Space, convinces the powers in charge that he needs to go back to Syndicate territory to kick their butts for the final time AND take on the unknown alien race. The Good Admiral can Do No Wrong. Except in the mind Vice Co-President Rione who's still not entirely convinced he can remain the good guy. We have Epic Space Battles, Unrequited Love, and Aliens Knocking at the Door.
Two complaints. One: an Ad...more
In which Admiral Geary, fresh on the heels of his victorious return to Alliance Space, convinces the powers in charge that he needs to go back to Syndicate territory to kick their butts for the final time AND take on the unknown alien race. The Good Admiral can Do No Wrong. Except in the mind Vice Co-President Rione who's still not entirely convinced he can remain the good guy. We have Epic Space Battles, Unrequited Love, and Aliens Knocking at the Door.
Two complaints. One: an Ad...more
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