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It is much closer to reality than the Lensman series, though I will not say that is a better or worse story line. The emergency beacon on his pod failed, and he drifted until he was accidentally found 100 years later by another Alliance Battle Cruiser.He was revived and found himself thrust into command of the entire Alliance Fleet (which was lost deep behind enemy lines) and expected to miraculously get the Fleet home safely and to put and end to the war once and for all, and he was to do this against the overwhelming forces of the Syndicate Worlds.Compounding his problems is the fact that he must deal with a group of rebellious officers among his own crew, a love relationship that can not be acknowledged, politicians at home who want to arrest him when he gets there for a crime he has not committed and for which there is no evidence to suggest that he ever thought of committing it.
The books in series order are: 1) The Lost Fleet: Dauntless, 2) The Lost Fleet: Fearless, 3) The Lost Fleet: Courageous, 4) The Lost Fleet: Valiant, 5) The Lost Fleet: Restless, and 6) The Lost Fleet: Victorious.The Alliance has been in a state of war for 100 years with another group of human worlds called the Syndicated Worlds, or Syndics for short. Courageous is the 3rd of a series of six books by Jack Campbell that collectively tell the story of Captain John Geary and his command of the space fleet which belongs to an Alliance of worlds occupied by humans.
He was placed in a state of hibernation, with the expectation that he would be picked up in a few weeks, but something went wrong. John Geary was thought to have been killed in the early opening attacks of that war.
In reality, he escaped certain doom in a survival pod launched from his Heavy Cruiser. And if that were not enough, he also has to deal with an unknown enemy with unknown technological capabilities that is known to exist just beyond the border that marks the extreme edge of Syndic space.If you like SciFi that's filled with space battles based on reasonably thought out tactical plans and strategies, this series may be for you.
That is for the reader to decide.
I was particularly impressed by the brilliant tactic used at the end of Courageous. The Lost Fleet series is the best space naval fiction I've come across. The books are long and drawn out, but have the detail and physics to back them up. It was the best possible move and a perfect end to the book. I won't spoil it by giving it away, but it was brilliant.
This is an excellant series. Good Action. Multipple human view points.I hope there is more with interaction with the Alien(s).
I thought the author missed a great chance to play the drunk-sex scene for laughs that would have deepened the characters immeasurably. Yes Victoria Rione can be annoying. But I still enjoyed Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3). In fact the charcterizations are still far too shallow in general. Her relationship with Geary needs to move up to the next level for it to keep from descending into parody. It's not a very realistic relationship; fight-question-sex-pray to ancestors, etc. But I find myself continuing to turn the pages waiting for the next encounter. The end was great (even if I did spot a typo or two) and I'm dying to know what happens in book 4 back in Lakota.db
I had thoroughly enjoyed reading the previous two books but this one got lost in the tiresome and irritating Senator Rione. I grew irritated with her behavior at about 1/3 and simply disgusted with the space devoted to her and her foibles.Unfortunately, she won't get lost or improve with time, so this is the last of the series I read. I'm reading for an action/adventure story, not touchy-feely relationship logbooks.
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