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| Fearless (The Lost Fleet, Book 2) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 7 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3879
Category: Book
Author: Jack Campbell
Publisher: Ace Books
Studio: Ace Books
Manufacturer: Ace Books
Label: Ace Books
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1
ISBN: 0441014763
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780441014767
ASIN: 0441014763
Publication Date: January 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Cheap and cheerful December 16, 2007
This has the feeling of a bit of a bargain basement book. Whilst the plot isn't bad and in places it's fairly well written the overall package just isn't that compelling and I'm not sure I'd be keen to recommend it to friends.
mutiny in space December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
second in a trilogy of books [dauntless, fearless, courageous] about the exploits of the lost fleet. in a space war between the good alliance and the nasty syndic, a fleet belonging to the former is lost behind enemy lines. their only chance of getting home? captain john 'black jack' geary, a man rescued from suspended animation a century after the first battle of the war. he's become a legend in the meantime. can he live up to it? deal with mutinous subordinates? scheming politicans? and get the fleet home?
this is not really a trilogy to come in on the middle of so start with volume one first. the writing in both of them is much the same. It's not great literature, but it's a little better than average and not as bad as it could be, and it does try to give depth to it's characters and explore strong themes of duty and what people become during wartime. All these books are a little under three hundred pages so they're short and easy reading. the space combat tries to be realistic and within the laws of physics.
And when reading this, you know what I kept feeling? the desire to know what would happen next. so the writer has done their job. entertaining pulp science fiction
 ... more of the same September 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Don't read this book if you haven't read the first in the trilogy. The almost total lack of further character development in the second book means it will lack even the inital promise of the first book.
The prinicples trudge along in the same two-dimensional manner, whilst the invincible fleet of the 'glorious Alliance' jump from one ever more unrealsitic victory to another, losing a handful of ships against the 'evil Syndics' utter destruction each time.
Again the vaugely promising aspect of the story gets hauled along in the background popping up whenever the author cant think of anything particularly fabulous and dare-devil for the great 'Black Jack' Geary to do.
If the third instalment were to end with the classic twist, i.e. the utter descrition of the Alliance fleet at the hands of a mysterious alien force and the death of the disgustingly egotistcal and sexist 'Black Jack' then it might be worth reading, might.
Lightweight but readable July 25, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
As reviews for the earlier book the writing though simplistic does draw you along. Sometimes I feel in the mood for an action film, in the same way a book like this can be a fun read. Do not try to analyse how the ships work just enjoy the ride.
One of the plot elements is expanded upon and just might start to explain why the war has lasted so long and why technology does not seem to have moved on much in a century. The love interest was predictable though not as in a review of the first book.
I will probably buy the next one, they are cheap enough after all.
Why Jack Campbell? July 1, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Cees Jan Mol's review below is spot on. The story line is good, but then you would expect this of any tale based (even loosely) on the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. However, the writing itself is strangely immature and I had a real stuggle with myself in justifying the puchase of book 2 after reading the first book. The story though is compelling and no doubt I will purchase book 3 to follow the fleet's fate. So mabye John G. Hemry (writing under the pseudonym of John Campbell) knows what he is doing afterall. One question remains, given Mr Hemry's reputation in the field of military science fiction, why the pseudonym?
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