Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2) by Jack Campbell
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Book Reviews of Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2)
Book Review: Must have
Summary: 5 Stars
I have read the series and am awaiting the next installation due out this summer (08). Not going to go into detail, just trust me on this one. Awesome book!Book Review: Good sci-fi, easy read, good entertainment
Summary: 5 Stars
I like the plot, it's an easy read. I would like to see these books made into a movie(s). Very good strategies in the battle scenes. Very enjoyable.Book Review: lost fleet trilogy
Summary: 5 Stars
Awesome book, they all are, hard to put down, before you know it you are done and wanting he next one!Book Review: Improvement over the first book
Summary: 4 Stars
There is some more character development here which is good. The title comes from the Fearless Task force which does the heavy lifting in an attack on a syndic system which is not on the 'net (possibly alien .technology which allows instantaneous transitions between interfaces). The interfaces are difficult and expensive to build so "marginal systems" don't get them and are left to wither away as they get little or no traffic.
There is a Syndic labor camp and one of the people rescued is one Falco a hero and charismatic figure believed dead for years (somewhat like John). His victories in the past were often pyrrhic and he likes the current "approved" approach "tactics we don't need no steekin tactics, just kill them all!"
Unlike another reviewer I am not going to blow the plot here but say that it is good. John faces some interesting choices and challenges and some of the characters are better developed. A little more humor would help and while the author is praised for not ignoring annoyances like the speed of light he doesn't really account for them. For instance there are no relativistic effects what would cause discontinuities in perception of another ship. Time which doesn't exist see The End of Time: The Next Revolution in Physics (warning Theoretical Physics conceptually difficult but only requires basic trig) runs differently depending on how the different ships relate in Lorentzian space. (Speaking as an orbital mechanic where special relativity [doesn't include gravity and problems like black holes] matters.) Also the Captains conferences would have to occur with the ships really really close unless there is some undisclosed technology that eliminates the time lag due to the speed of light. I have been in video conferences over long distance and they are very difficult due to speed of light delays on satellite signals.
Overall and improvement over the Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1).
BTW accelerating from 0 velocity at .2 light for an hour would get you v=1/2*a*TT (time squared) or v= .1*300000m/sec*7464960000 or which would lead to a velocity of 1119744000000000m/sec which is imposable (exceeds the speed of light). I am not going to address this further but if some one is interested leave a comment and I will respond.
Book Review: Military SF by an author who knows his business
Summary: 4 Stars
A century ago, Commander John Geary took to a damaged survival pod after seeing the last member of his crew evacuated from his dying ship. Now he's been revived from cold sleep, and he finds himself living with a legend that developed during the century of his strange absence: that of Captain (by posthumous promotion) "Black Jack" Geary, a hero in the still ongoing war between the Alliance and the Syndics. Although he feels unequal to the task, Geary has taken command of the Alliance fleet that found his drifting pod and brought him back to life. He continues to hold that command, because he is the only officer left in this modern era who remembers battle tactics that did not result in suicide. He knows how to "fight smart" and live to do so another day, a skill now long forgotten.
As the Alliance Fleet tries to jump its way home from deep within Syndic territory, Geary struggles with his disconnection from the era in which he now lives. He continues the mourning process of letting his lost life go, and of gradually developing new relationships and new purpose. He finds that process complicated by having every single person who's now part of his life under his command, and therefore personally off limits. Every single person except the fleet's one civilian: Alliance Co-President Victoria Rione, who may or may not even like John Geary. Who certainly neither likes nor trusts "Black Jack," but who understands what others don't: that Black Jack is a legend the real man does not inhabit by choice.
This is military science fiction written by a trained Navy officer who truly knows about tactics, and about the challenges of command. I have loved military SF since I discovered it in my girlhood, and I have not read better in all the years I've followed the genre. The characters gain depth as the story progresses, and the on-going mysteries necessary to any good series add to the tale instead of distracting from it. I hope to track down the rest of the installments soon.
--Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of 2005 science fiction EPPIE winner "Regs"