NOTE: Possible spoilers

Dreadnought is a book I would describe as being basically slightly disappointing. Now the copy I read was lent to me by a friend and to be honest I would probably take an even less favorable view if I'd actually forked over money for it.

The original series I found to have a few problems (at least one book too long in my opinion) but basically enjoyable. Dreadnought picks up right where the Lost Fleet left off and opens very well. The Alliance is victorious in a generatio More...

After reading the last book of the Lost Fleet series, I went to read other books for a while, simply as I did not feel there was much surprise left in it.

I was drawn back to the new book Dreadnaught, as I quite enjoyed the overall series of the Lost Fleet. The story of Dreadnaught happens almost right after the first series end, with Black Jack Geary heading back with the fleet to discover more about the enigma aliens.

This book did not focus on gigantic interstellar battles like the previous one More...

I fell in love with Jack Campbell's series "The Lost Fleet" and knew at its conclusion that I would have to read "The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier" when it was published. I did not get the chance to start reading the series until just last week.

As was the case with his previous series, once I started reading the book, I couldn't put it down. This series is SciFi Military reading candy at it best.

So, what do I like about it? Well, besides interesting characters, an intriguing mystery and well- More...

More entertaining military SF from Jack Campbell, with few surprises but decent satisfaction. "Black Jack" Geary got the Lost Fleet home, won the war against the Syndics, and bloodied the nose of the alien race that started the whole generations-long conflict.

But now the Alliance is beginning to unravel, the government is trying to drastically cut back on military spending -- and the politicians are understandably worried that Geary may go all Caesar on them. So they bundle him up with his loya More...

If you are already familiar with Jack Campbell’s military sci fi ‘The Lost Fleet’ series you will know that his central character Captain John ‘Black Jack’ Geary has woke from a century of survival hibernation and found himself taking command of the Alliance Fleet in the final throes of a long and bitter conflict with the Syndicate Worlds.

‘Dreadnaught’ finds Geary promoted to Fleet Admiral with the adoration of the people and the mistrust and suspicion of politicians who are convinced that a liv More...

Warning: This review will, of necessity, contain spoilers for the first Lost Fleet series.

At the end of the previous series, our hero, 'Black Jack' Geary, has successfully lead the fleet to victory over the Syndics, but also over the aliens who had been manipulating both sides of the 100 year long war. So what's a successful admiral to do now? (Besides marry Capt Tanya Desjani, that is).
The government of the Alliance is scared to death of Geary--he is sooo popular that he could easily stage a co More...

The Lost Fleet Beyond The Frontier Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell


Jack Campbell continues his space opera series with the seventh book in the series. John "Black Jack" Geary has successfully defeated the Syndic worlds as an Alliance commander. Now, he is going to seek out the aliens who supported the Syndics. This is classic space opera. Black Jack is the hero out of time, a common theme in science fiction. He was awoken out of frozen sleep after 100 years to lead the Alliance to victory. This them More...

I always enjoy book 7 in a 6 part series. This series needed this book as Black Jack Geary had rescued the Alliance Fleet, kicked the Syndics butt, discover an alien race called the enigma who were just sitting by and watching the Syndic and Alliance forces destroy each other so they could move in and take over the neighbourhood.

Having returned to Earth the politicians had to do something with Black Jack Geary because he was just too powerful after this triumphant return with what remained of th More...

This is an excellent read. I read a few who said that the "Beyond the Frontier" series wasn't as good as the "Lost Fleet" series. Well, that may be true in some ways I suppose. It probably depends on what you come to the book looking for.

It's true that there isn't so much action here as we saw in the first series. The great battles involving fleets of ships aren't so common here (though we do have some conflict with the "alien" race mostly in the last third of the book). I think I'm interested More...

The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people and the politicians are convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a rebellion. So he can't help but wonder if th More...

What my stars mean:
5 Stars--the book had a profound impact on me. It touched me on some special level and lingered with me long after I'd finished reading it.
4 Stars--I loved this book. If I don't own it, I will buy it so I can read it again and again.
3 Stars--I enjoyed the book but may have had an issue or two with it.
2 Stars--I had more than a few issues with it.
1 Stars--I hated it.

WHAT'S IT ABOUT?
The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fl More...

After either reading or listening (via audible.com) to the previous six books of this series, this was like meeting an old friend doing new things. You can read the other reviews to understand how the saga continues (apparently, it could go on forever). The author has clearly figured out a winning formula and has stuck with it.

But ...

Geary and Desjani are married. One would think that there is room for a little more emotion - yet they apparently still have separate staterooms, and never, never More...

OK, I know I skipped the last three volumes of the Lost Fleet series. Maybe I’ll go back and post some lengthier reviews but right now I will press onwards. If you haven’t read the first Lost Fleet series be aware that there will be some spoilers for that series in this review. That there is a second series is likely, on some level a spoiler, in and of itself. So, if you’ve just started to read The Lost Fleet or if you intend to read The Lost Fleet: be warned!

So at the end Victorious, and likely More...

I dreaded this book, I have to admit. I didn't see how Campbell could continue the series WITH Geary without losing much of what I loved about the original Lost Fleet books.

Thankfully, I was hugely disappointed :) This was just as good as the previous books, and in some ways, better. There was not nearly as much explicit space battle tactics explained in painful detail. Whoohoo!

Geary is still Geary and dealing with a government that doesn't want him, balancing those who hate him, love him, want More...

Slower than most Campbell's earlier books, there was obviously a fair amount of groundwork being set for future books in the "Beyond the Frontier" series. That said, if you liked any of the other Lost Fleet books, then you'll like this one as well.

All of the main characters, that survived the previous books, are back in this new story, complete with most of the same feelings and animosities about the other characters. A couple of new additions are made during the course of the book, but they're More...

#1 in the Beyond the Frontier series. In a sequel to The Lost Fleet series, Admiral "Black Jack" Geary takes command of a reconstituted First Fleet in a search for the alien race deduced to exist.

Beyond the Frontier series - The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the conflict against the Syndicate Worlds. Now Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be More...

I got the feeling from the foundation of this book that Campbell needed Geary to be "out there" and the vehicle he used felt, to me, deliberately rushed. I suspect the rush was to completely avoid 1) the romance between Geary and his wife 2) describing to any substantial degree the world and technology around Geary and 3) the fanfare that no doubt would swirl all around a legenday hero who has returned from the "living stars" to defeat all of the Aliances enemies in a comparatively short time. O More...

When I started read the John Geary series of novels, I thought "Well this seems like a cheesy piece of cr*p"
Then, before I knew it, I was 5 books into the series in less than a month, waiting for the 6th to come out.

This book is, I suppose, the 7th.

It follows the career of John 'Black Jack' Geary, as he finds himself, after a major adventure, being sent on another adventure. Hard to keep from putting spoilers in there, but that should sum up.. pretty much every sequel there is...

The books are m More...

As usual, the book is fun, clever, and hard to put down. It gets dinged 2 stars for not ending. That is to say, it ends right in the middle. Not the sort of 'ends in the middle' where there is some conclusion but there's still an outstanding threat. The sort of 'ends in the middle' where you think the publisher made a mistake, and forgot to print the next chapter, because there's no way you'd ever stop a book where it stops.

Of course, now I have to buy the next in the series. Which I would have More...

In The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught, Admiral Geary is back in command of the Alliance fleet, this time on a mission to explore the territory controlled by the mysterious Enigma race. Fans of the previous novels will no doubt enjoy this installment of Black Jack Geary commanding the fleet from the flagship Dauntless.

For Geary and his familiar side-kicks, confronting the Enigma race proves difficult. The Enigmas are secretive and go out of their way to prevent the Alliance Fleet f More...

The hero of the previous series has led the Lost Fleet all the way home. Now he's leading it right back out again to confront the aliens who may have instigated the whole century-long interstellar war in the first place). It's another series and it's just getting started; there's a little less of the intrigue between different captains this time.

This series used to be famous for having no character description at all. You never find out what anyone is supposed to look like. This book breaks that More...

The first book of Campbell's new series picks up almost immediately after _The Lost Fleet_ left off, and presents the main character, "Black Jack" Geary with a whole new set of challenges to overcome. Once again, Geary is in command of a vast Alliance fleet, but the real reasons behind this new command are shrouded in political intrigue, and could conceal a deadly trap.

Campbell creates an interesting set of challenges for Geary at the beginning of this new series, but the pace is somewhat slower More...

I'm a huge fan of the Jack Campbell "Dauntless" series and this book was at least as good as the first book in the last series. Many of the same characters make their return with a few new bit players, and the action is no longer centered around a human threat, but the extraterrestrial threat of the mysterious race from the previous book. Lurking in the background, however, is the growing suspicion that Black Jack has been sent with his fleet on a one way trip he's not supposed to come home from More...

I'm thrilled to see Jack Campbell's Black Jack series continue. This was not his strongest effort, though I suspect that has to do with the often-mentioned first-book syndrome, in which we need to explain all that has gone before for new readers. This consumes about 1/3 of the book.

Still, once the action gets going, it's a nice read. This story shows more of an epic sweep than his previous novels, taking us through the murly political landscape of the Alliance, into the Darwinian political remna More...

This book begins "phase two" of the series; the first handful of books introduces us to "Black Jack" and his ability to control a fleet in space and get back home into Alliance territory. This book picks up shortly after his return and subsequent orders to go back out into space to contact the Enigma, an alien race of which little is known. Loads of political overtones - at least the conniving part of politics - power struggles, freed humans and some action. This one didn't suck me into the stor More...

My reading of this book was broken up into two parts - stupid library recall - so in some ways my reading of this book was broken up, somewhat lessening the entertainment factor as I had to re-acclimatise to the story-line having read another book in the interim. However, this does not detract much from what is a great book - an easy Four Stars, and worth reading by any Sci-Fi/Space Opera fan out there. [Though, you should read the previous series first to understand what is happening].

The Plot More...

When you've read all six Lost Fleet books, and then the first in the Beyond the Frontier series in virtually one go (i.e. less than a month), the concept of waiting for the next one to be published is hard to accept!

This book continues the Lost Fleet series as it describes, (view spoiler)[ beyond the frontier with the 'Enigma Race' and into their territory. Due to the addition of a new species, new areas of space, and changes to the fleet, it brings new angles and interest to the series and the characters. (hide spoiler)]

The More...

The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught (or simply Dreadnaught as I will refer to it from now on!) is the new book in Jack Campbell's Lost Fleet setting, although this book kicks off a new trilogy set after the events of the original six book series. To say that this book was a highly anticipated release would be a gross understatement, I imported it as soon as I could and cracked it open and plowed through it in barely a few days. I'm a huge fan of the series and I thoroughly enjoyed D More...