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 23:44:20 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 52 Message-ID: <1054mb4$3sv4d$2@dont-email.me> References: <1054jhv$3shvb$1@dont-email.me> <1054ke2$3mcis$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 06:44:20 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7d69793ca42066b3984281ce35a10655"; logging-data="4095117"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+cHq7Nkfwx/863Z9aWansqZxUYcUwayq0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ApzX7hFfqEJ8HL1rpdxr/p2QQgY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <1054ke2$3mcis$1@dont-email.me> On 7/14/2025 11:11 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > > > On 7/14/25 20:56, 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 Captain John “Black Jack” Geary may be a hundred years out of date but 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 >> > >     I have read the same book and it is an interesting and satisfying > read. > >     bliss Wait, we agree on something ! The book let me pass some time while sitting with my 86 year old father in the hospital in San Antonio. Lynn