![]() ![]() ![]() He is thrust back into military service, only to find the fleet he now commands thrown far from home. The universe that greets him is one in which everyone he ever knew has long since died, and he is considered a legendary military genius and hero by a society who grew up reading about him in textbooks. The main character is Captain John “Black Jack” Geary, who is discovered by Alliance ships and awoken after a prolonged cryogenic sleep. They each use a form of faster-than-light travel and cryogenic freezing is a proven technology in this novel, which is the first in a series. In many ways, this is a rather typical futuristic science fiction novel, with two opposing sets of interplanetary human governments at war: the Alliance and the seemingly villainous Syndic. ![]() If you’ve ever wondered how combat between man-made spacecraft might actually function based on physics, then Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet: Dauntless is just what you need. Science fiction stories in literature, film, and television have depicted battles between space-faring ships for decades, even before the first human went into space. ![]()
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