Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2)
by Jack Campbell
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Author: Jack CampbellEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-30
ISBN: 0441014763
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441014767
- Condition: New
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Book Reviews of Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2)
Book Review: If you enjoy stuff like Battlestar Galactica...
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the second novel in the ongoing LOST FLEET space saga, and sci-fi writer Jack Campbell keeps coming up with stories you only grudgingly put down. In FEARLESS Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's mission only gets more challenging. Remember that Geary is a relic, a man found drifting in a lifepod and awoken from a hundred-year cryogenic sleep. Now saddled with herding the remnants of the Alliance fleet thru enemy territory, the man whose legend has only grown in the past century finds himself struggling to catch up not only with current tech but also with his fellow soldiers' contemporary sensibilities.
Except that Geary is horrified at how the mindsets of his people had been so drastically warped and at the slippage of time-honored military traditions and at what passes today as honorable conduct. The oppressive Syndicate Worlds (or Syndic) had initiated the war, but somewhere down the long years, the people of the Alliance had adopted Syndic morals and tactics. The Alliance has suffered incalculable losses, the soldiers are getting younger and younger and gaining less experience, and the popular perception is that one has to be brave to the exclusion of sound tactics, to pursue glory while forfeiting caution and teamwork.
It's an uphill climb, but Black Jack is trying to effect a change. And although he's very uncomfortable that he's spoken of in such hushed and reverential tones, this reputation helps to sway his soldiers to his way of thinking. As Fleet Commander, Geary not only plans to elude or outfight overwhelming odds, not only plans to get his people back home, but he's also safeguarding the future of the Alliance and its people. His flagship the Dauntless possesses the key to the Syndic hypernet, wrested from the enemy and crucial in giving the Alliance a hardfought advantage in their hundred year war.
FEARLESS finds the fleet still deep in hostile Syndic space, still retreating. Captain Geary's cautiousness doesn't at all sit well with his fellow officers, several of whom have been boldly challenging his leadership from jump. A further complication comes along when a labor camp rescue mission swells the fleet's ranks but also allows more opportunities for betrayal from within. In one of these liberated prisoners, Black Jack faces a fellow legend, a rival more charismatic and infinitely more ambitious than he is. And, as ever, the forces of the Syndicate Worlds are in relentless pursuit, desperate to retrieve the hypernet key.
I find this series so fascinating and gripping. Captain John Geary, a man out of time and still adjusting to the present, continues to be an absorbing protagonist. I like that Geary exudes this rock solid steadiness on the surface, and yet as readers we note the uncertainties he carefully hides from his shipmates. I do think the Horatio Hornblower comparisons are apt. Also interesting are the skirmishes in space, and how each engagement is waged on a time-delay basis and tacticians, in launching their weapons, must anticipate where a target will be rather than where it currently is. Ship to ship communications sometimes take minutes to transmit, dependent on proximity and distance. From the Dauntless, Geary, our point of view character, often gazes at engaged battles in space, of which resolution had already happened minutes and sometimes hours ago.
If you enjoy stuff like Battlestar Galactica, there are parallels to be drawn. The premise is familiar, a ragtag fleet fleeing a remorseless enemy. The essence of humanity and the erosive fallout of war are explored in the Lost Fleet series, although, okay, not to the extent that they're explored in Battlestar Galactica. If you guys don't know, Jack Campbell has written other military sci-fi near as engrossing as the LOST FLEET adventures. Under his real name, John G. Hemry, guy's produced the utterly enjoyable Stark's War trilogy and the JAG in Space series. The through theme in all of his works is this sense of groundedness and realism and humanity. His other protagonists, Sergeant Ethan Stark and the litigating Lieutenant Paul Sinclair, share much in common with John Geary. All three are terrific as a thinking man's hero.
An intriguing plot thread is opened up even more as Geary raises the incredulous possibility that the seeds of the Syndic-Alliance war may actually have been sown by an outside presence. But Geary's inner circle pretty much pooh-poohs his idea of We Are Not Alone. I'm sure there's more to come regarding that theory. I also liked that while John Geary doesn't actually fall into romance, after a hundred years, he at least finally does get some. And Jack Campbell doesn't ignore Black Jack's supporting characters. My second favorite person in this series, after Black Jack, is probably the bold and unorthodox Commander Cresida. She's not in the book much but when she is, she only helps in making it an addictive read.
Summary of Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2)
Captain John "Black Jack" Geary tries a desperate gamble to lead the Alliance Fleet home-through enemy-occupied space-only to lose half the Fleet to an unexpected mutiny.
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