Albion burns beneath Daegon rule.Commodore Thomas Gage and his fleet, safeguarding the last of the Albion Royal Family, are on the run. Hunting them, a ruthless Daegon commander will stop at nothing to crush Albion’s only remaining free force.To find sanctuary beyond their enemy’s reach, the battle-damaged fleet must cut through a hostile and dangerous region of space known as the Kigeli Nebula. But to secure passage, Gage must strike a deal with an old enemy who wants nothing more than to fulfill a vendetta and see the commodore dead. Facing threats ahead, behind and from within, Gage must lead his fleet down the Long March to freedom.THE LONG MARCH is the second novel in an action-packed military space opera series by the best-selling author of the Ember War Saga and Iron Dragoons.
Richard Fox is a Nebula Award nominated author, and winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy novel, author of The Ember War Saga, a military science fiction and space opera series, and other novels in the military history, thriller and space opera genres.
He lives in fabulous Las Vegas with his incredible wife and three boys, amazing children bent on anarchy.
He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) much to his surprise and spent ten years on active duty in the United States Army. He deployed on two combat tours to Iraq and received the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.
The Ember War Saga: 1. The Ember War 2. The Ruins of Anthalas 3. Blood of Heroes 4. Earth Defiant 5. The Gardens of Nibiru 6. Battle of the Void 7. The Siege of Earth 8. The Crucible 9. The Xaros Reckoning
Terran Armored Corps 1. Iron Dragoons 2. The Ibarra Sanction 3. The True Measure 4. A House Divided 5. The Last Aeon 6. Ferrum Corde
Terran Strike Marines 1. The Dotari Salvation 2. Rage of Winter 3. Valdar's Hammer 4. The Beast of Eridu 5. Gott Mit Uns
The Exiled Fleet: 1. Albion Lost 2. The Long March 3. Finest Hour 4. Point of Honor
The Terra Nova Chronicles 1. Terra Nova 2. Bloodlines 3. Wings of Redemption 4. Hale's War
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An idiot complained that I list channels with trans creators whilst insulting a trans essayist whom I mentioned. Snowflakes (viciously arrogant, barely educated US tittie-baby) no longer surprise. A trigger warning then.
The channels which I list include military boardgamer, Kenyan, bi, primatologist, book reviewer, architect, miniatures builder, boat restorer, lesbian, economist, socialist, mathematician, cis, miniatures painter, Indian, aviation modeller, linguist, intersex, lumber yard worker, WOC, tall, sociologist, comedienne, queer, sewist, redhaired, military historian, fashion historian, asexual, theoretical physicist, archaeologist, marine biologist, Irish, trans, communist, psychologist, Canadian, cosplayer, fabric maker, chemist, news presenter and other creators known as Women.
Almost as threatening to the barely literate are channels with other LGBTQI+, train modeller, anarchist, Danish, zoologist, other BIPOC, political analyst, writer, other fashion historian, anarchist, anthropologist, Canadian, political economist, ginger, military modeller, boater, neurodivergent, paleontologist, New Zealander, reenactor, miniatures wargamer, game historian and others known (outside the US) as Human Beings.
Should the voices still demand, I urge emergency therapy and\or developing a hobby (not to include assaulting women, which is mental illness) and\or request an immediate exorcism.
My feelings towards these thugs are similar to that of the 13 Ukrainian marines defending Snake Island, when their surrender was demanded by the Russian navy. Their response was "Russian warship, go f@ck yourself". Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes. Crimea is Ukraine.
Once more unto the book, dear friends. The theme of the lost military unit has good historical examples from the Ten Thousand of Xenophon through march of the Czech Legion. Those stories would have provided for a serious retelling. The theme was well done in a science fiction setting by both Drake and Weber.
Requirements for a fleet without a home are far different to that of an army. An example is the Imperial Russian Fleet in 1904.
A spy is determined to return a dangerous, shape shifting assassin for trial rather than immediately killing him. This after watching his team being killed one at a time during the pursuit of this enemy.
The Commodore spends time daydreaming of killing his pirate allies whose assistance is needed for the survival of his fleet.
A fleet with no repair facilities, ammunition supply, refuelling bases, sources of foodstuffs, etc is a tragedy in the process of unfolding.
The surviving Royal Guard is so loyal and disciplined that he gave the secrets of palace security to a strange woman. It was in exchange for world class sex, I hope.
The enemy are the descendants of a wealthy cabal which abandoned the damaged Earth centuries previously with a promise to return as rulers. "Ayn Rand" world then produced a society of raging sociopaths. "Objectivist thought" or Ayn Rand morality will turn the blood cold.
Several hundred Martian colonists were able to restore broken global supply chains, communications networks, manufacturing infrastructure, agricultural production, disease mitigation, reverse environmental degradation, repair social structures and the rest before billions died. That timeline is interesting.
The protagonist faction is best described as a government unprepared for a known existential threat, the navy lax and incompetent, a military utterly useless. All is not lost as long as a child Prince of an irresponsible royal house survives.
China, India and the Islamic world are multicultural/multilingual. The three cultures created the foundations of European scientific, medical, mathematics and philosophical development. In this and every Unlimited books which I attempted, these are portrayed as late 18th century caricatures.
The French vs German scenario featuring some version of the 1940 invasion of France is an inaccurate, asinine, insane US parahistory.
There are no serious worldbuilding or characters worthy of a follow. Misogyny is "explained" as biological. The slavery is "explained" as cultural norm and the fault of the enslaved. Very Roman or American.
Unfortunately no research is demanded of the writer or the reader, both seem content to validate the global perception of general American ignorance.
I finally abandoned my Unlimited sub, since the Indie gems were so outnumbered by fevered children's fantasies.
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I also watched Bodkin, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Carol and the End of the World, Dead Boy Detectives.
It is tempting to accept the specialized channels as expert sources but I suggest that before quoting a channel, find a third view of the material from a credentialed source. Channels have links to their sources to encourage further reading.
Consider treating this site as hostile. 🤔
Goodreads discourse does not exist. I had received the outraged comment from perhaps six months into my membership. I had desired not to disseminate my notes to self but was given no choice.
An example. I wrote a very short negative review of Powers of the Earth, which I found unhealthy and dangerous. Written by Travis Corcoran, it was originally blurbed as similar to a Heinlein classic but was instead a badly written rehash of "Atlas Shrugged" set on the Moon.
The story is of a rich twat, enlisting the military in overthrow of a US government in order that he not pay taxes. This and similarly themed books are prevalent in Unlimited.
Corcoran self-described as libertarian (now anarcho capitalist without millions), an employee of an unnamed US agency,
Advocate for the return of chattel slavery (popular US position. As early as 2010 a Republican candidate suggested as much. New forced labour prisons are being built to house the unhoused, poor van and auto residents, including children. With their poverty criminalised, there seem no pathway to release. The prisons also include line items for large, expensive furnaces for disposal of biologicals. One Party's adherents applaud, the other have not even mentioned it. With no objections, generational enslavement and possibly Nazi population reduction processes are certainly on the cards.)
US veteran, admirer of Putin's Russia (popular stance, with a compromised leader, an Intelligence Chief a Russian asset and US media expressing little concern fur either or the living standards for the working class well along towards Russian levels of poverty).
Travis led six fellow patriots in a year of attacks on my intelligence, my class background, socialism and the rest.
No mention was made of the book or the impact of Zoroastrianism on Christianity. The latter might have been interesting and irony was cold comfort.
The final comment was made by Claes Rees, Jr aka cgr710 now ka Clayton R Jesse Jr. After referencing the content of my last message exchange with a Goodreads friend, he declared that They had "won" (?).
I discovered that They and allies had at that point launched a year long (it continues still) deluge of vile sexual, racist, anti-LGBTQ and similar comments against apparently every channel I listed.
The physicist, midteen boater and her mother, historian, artist and the many other female creators were less than impressed.
Despite that, the world's overabundance of unpleasantness was successfully increased and They did deliver an accurate self-portrait of the snowflake (racist, anti-LGBTQI, anti-woman, vicious US man-child) to a multinational audience.
On balance, quite a Victory. If the above shock, there are BookTubers to direct you to safer, saner reader forums. I had expected reviews might be tedious not dangerous.
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Ominous music begins. 🙂 The comment gangs are probably more prevalent in the speculative fiction space but are active in romance and romantasy also. Amazon have never to my knowledge, acknowledged any incident, disciplined emotionally damaged members, punished writers who organise Them or dismissed the employees who enabled both.
Gang activity have expanded into the stalking, doxxing, hacking, threats and more.
Amazon shared my limited message history with these madmen, which resulted in a request through Pine Gap Centre that Australian Intelligence interrogate the one friend whom I occasionally messaged. The attempt on my personal history was a failure.
It only concerned Amazon as we publicised the event. At that point, my page format and options were returned to normal, comments were masked, Lurkers whom I had not been Allowed to remove were disappeared, periodic bricking of my Kindle ended and the rest.
One BookTuber had her one review deleted from Goodreads. Apparently addressing racism, ableism or other anti-human elements in a title are "Hate Speech". I had experienced the same until in my reviews I informed Kindle that Screenshot was my friend.
Another BookTuber had access to her cloud library blocked and Kindle bricked because she challenged an obvious Amazon double billing.
A seventh ex-employee of EBay who had been Chief of EBay Global Security or something like was sentenced for harassment of a couple whose small ecommerce site had been deemed unkind to EBay. They were awarded millions.
With the increased protections afforded US data firms, I expect that there will be an increase of these incidents.
I suggest the following. Remove all personal information from profile and avoid the messaging. Remove the lurker, those friends who never post. They are likely gang monitors or employee dummies
Given the Goodreads penchant for Alteration of customer pages, the screenshot of the odd, the ugly and threatening are very useful. These should suffice.
Kindle are the more dangerous. Do Not use Kindle Email, Calendar, Files or Contacts. Employees Sign Into customer emails without notice or permission. Make of that what you will.
Do Not "purchase" Amazon ebooks as you own only the device and if a Kindle, that seems conditional. I made the mistake. If purchased, download titles immediately. There are BookTubers to guide you to other ebook and tablet vendors or alternatives to ebook purchase altogether.
All Silk searches should be innocuous and non-critical.
To implement these cost nothing, to not might well do. Bear in mind that these deranged members and employees derive from a diseased society, lack non-Randian morality, healthy socialisation and are US patriots with all that implies. Ominous music ends. 😊
Be safe. May we all find Good Reading! 🤗
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Plodding, Few Positives Underutilized, and Slipshod Workmanship
"The Long March (The Exiled Fleet Book 2)," is a disappointing follow on in the "Exiled Fleet" series, authored by Mr. Richard Fox. The narrative is mainly plodding, uninspired, with the few positive characters/plot sequences underutilized, and exhibits slipshod workmanship. Frankly, the book seems "rushed to publish," forgoing quality over quantity, in order to make a buck.
The story continues the saga of the tattered Albion 11th Fleet, under the command of Commodore Gage, as it flees with the child prince, the sole surviving member of the royal family, through "wild" space. The enemy is snapping at the fleet's heels, sometimes drawing blood, while Gage makes transactional deals with heretofore enemy pirates, battles infiltrators, and tries to reach temporary safety in an ally's realm.
The plotting and narrative is formulaic, reprising similar, if not identical scenarios. The main character (MC), Gage is devolving into a pretentious twit, hard to root for. The more interesting and engaging characters (bodyguards, "Faceless" intel agents, pilots) make sporadic appearances, and are underutilized. Instead, Mr. Fox focuses on cartoonish villains, suspiciously reminiscent of "The Chronicles of Riddick," or pirates echoing "Pirates of the Caribbean." It's all a second tier endeavor. The writing is not fluid or crisp, below par for the author, and seems lazy in its results: "good enough to slip by" syndrome.
The previous book in the series, and others written by Mr. Fox are far superior to "The Long March."
This book has a "neutral" recommendation and was fully read via Kindle Unlimited.
This is a continuation of the story begun in "Albion Lost".
In this episode, Commodore Gage must escape the Daegon fleet chasing him. Gage is carrying precious cargo, the hope of the Abion monarchy. To escape, he must enlist the help of old enemies at the outer edges of civilization... pirates who once vowed to destroy him. Now they will help him... maybe. Or they will double cross him, and Gage will lose all hope of ever returning to Albion.
Any problems with this novel? Not really. It is a transitional book which means that the author is still trying to set up the bigger picture of an exiled fleet waiting to strike and win. But first they have to get out of immediate danger. If they are still trying to do that in book 3, I might get bored, but so far, I'm still interested.
Any modesty issues? They use the S-word quite a bit, but otherwise no.
I'd read this book again as part of reading the series.
The book is fast-paced, if you like science fiction with space battles you will enjoy the series. What I didn't like was the fact that the heroes are always fighting from behind the eight ball, I guess that's why it's called the lost fleet they always seem to be running from the enemy, their ships and technology is not as good, and they keep losing their ships. The character development is very good except for the captain who seems to be walking around with a stick someplace where the sun does not shine. When I read a book I want to see my heroes win, kick alien tail, succeed. Saying all this I will give the next book a try I think you should as well.
So far this is a fun series of epic space battles and trying to save the three-year-old prince. The technology was really cool. Humans are augmented to have special abilities like being able to change their appearance and AI tech suits that sound like a lot of fun. I even enjoyed how they made the armor uncomfortable because it would likely be. I am just getting into science fiction more and this was a fun read for getting into the genre.
Commodore Gage and his small fleet are hoping to make their escape from the Daegon forces. They must make it to New Madras through dangerous space, and the only person that knows the route is a pirate that want Gage dead. The last remaining Royal Prince is aboard his flagship, but also a faceless killer has made his way aboard. Can Gage keep the young Prince safe and his fleet. Looking forward to reading more.
I guess I'm stuck now. "Their Finest Hour" isn't out and I've finished all the rest. My name is Jerry and I am a space war junkie. The author pens another winner and leaves me asking, "Now what happens?" Richard the fall of 2017 was last year. This book is not overly complex, it is still a good versus evil with good taking hits along the way, but I still like the character development.
The story reminds me of Battlestar Galactica - a small fleet relentlessly pursued by stronger enemies. It has some interesting concepts but I felt that the characters are lacking. They seem too stereotypical, somewhat charicatural. It doesn't add much to the first part of the series, and ends in a cliffhanger without a third part being available. Overall it's a fun read but it felt underwhelming to me.
After binging all of the Halo novels and then jumping right into all of the Lost fleet novels, I have had a mighty itch for more military space sci-fi. I have been hard-pressed to find anything to meet that need and I was getting ready to give up on this series because it was getting off to a really slow start but I am glad I stuck it out and went through book two. things really start picking up and getting interesting in the second half of book two.
This series is excellent so far. The long match continues this trend, blending enough action and suspense. Fox has elicited a deep hatred in me for the Daegon, and I can't wait for the next book where we hopefully see them out down...violently.
I enjoyed this book a lot. I find both the good guys and the bad guys to be very well done. I slip into a role besides them without any trouble. I was very disappointed to not be able to find “Their Finest Hour” to continue this wonderful story. Where did it go?
Well episode 1 and 2 great but cannot find book 3 Their Finest Hour hopefully it is out by now. Really looking forward to that. Great storyline by a great either I have enjoyed all of his books from the Ember Ear right the way through. Blimey this rating wants me to write a book lol
Although I enjoyed reading the harrowing exploits of the Commodore and his crew, I felt this book may have been rushed as some of the small errors were easy to spot. I especially enjoyed the cat and mouse battles between the Faceless.
Great new series but.........,............... Now I have to wait for one of my favorite authors to write the next one. Strong characters, gripping storylines, great battles and pirates. Love the Albion universe and I hope to read more of commodore gage,s adventures
I read a lot and this book was impossible to put down. It was hard to second guess what happens next, so I had to read on. I can't wait to read the next one in the sieries.
The exiled Albion fleet continues its running right with the Dhagan. Gripping seconds part with action, intrigue, spies and sacrifice. Excellent characters, well written storyline. Narration is excellent.