Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: "Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 23:45:10 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: <1054mcm$3sv4d$3@dont-email.me> References: <1054jhv$3shvb$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2025 06:45:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7d69793ca42066b3984281ce35a10655"; logging-data="4095117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rkxMfmE86oWUWbd40sj3YyYPXHwjoD9U=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:XlU2K9hhDD0XBOnWDYl6HfhZOE8= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: On 7/14/2025 11:16 PM, Ted Nolan wrote: > In article <1054jhv$3shvb$1@dont-email.me>, > Lynn McGuire wrote: >> "Dauntless (The Lost Fleet, Book 1) by Jack Campbell >> https://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-Lost-Fleet-Book-1/dp/0441014186/ >> >> Book number one of a six book military science fiction series. Plus >> several sequel series consisting of fourteen books total. I read the >> well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2006. I have >> purchased the five sequel books in this series and plan to read them soon. >> >> I did not know John G. Hemry was the real name for Jack Campbell as I >> purchased the Stark series quite a while back and enjoyed it also. >> >> The Alliance sent a war fleet into the Syndic home star system via the >> new FTL network to defeat the Syndics once and for all. However, the >> Syndics knew that they were coming and destroyed many of the Alliance >> space warships. Now the Alliance warships need to leave or be destroyed >> one by one. >> >> The Alliance admiral left Captain John “Black Jack” Geary in charge of >> the Alliance fleet before he and his staff were murdered by the Syndics >> in the negotiations. Captain John “Black Jack” Geary was found by the >> Alliance fleet on their way to Syndic space, in stasis in an old >> emergency pod. A hundred year old emergency pod. >> >> Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but >> some things like tactics of war spaceship fleets never go away. >> >> The author has a website at: >> https://jack-campbell.com/ >> >> My rating: 5 out of 5 stars >> Amazon rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (6,060 reviews) >> >> Lynn >> > > One of the many SF takes on Xenophon. I think I've read all the Black Jack > books (I skipped the spinoff series), but it seems like there hasn't been > a new one for a few years. The author states that he wrote all of the stories about Black Jack at his website: https://jack-campbell.com/index.html Lynn