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'This is pulp fiction at it best, and it's great fun, with a quality of earnest integrity that comes from its author's real-world experience in the US Navy.' --GQ Magazine
"This book should please fans of military science fiction, with its planetary engagements as well as fleet battles." --SF Book Reviews
"This book should please fans of military science fiction, with its planetary engagements as well as fleet battles." --SF Book Reviews
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Black Jack Geary has ordered his fleet back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them, a desperate gamble that may give them a fighting chance of survival or tear them apart. Now in a brand new trade paperback edition.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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for the uninitiated: this is a series of science fiction novels telling the ongoing story of the lost fleet, a group of spaceships in a future war between two human groups called the alliance and the syndic. the fleet comes from the former, and they got lost behind enemy lines and would have been doomed had they not found john geary. the legendary black jack, who fought in a battle at the start of the war one hundred years previously and was stuck in suspended animation ever since. geary is now in command, struggling to deal with the myth that has built up around him in the meantime, and trying to get the fleet back home. These books are not great literature by a long way, but they're capably written and feature good space battles.
you could probably pick the story up here, but to get the most out of the series go back to the first volume and read them in order.
for those who have been following this series:
this one like all of them runs roughly 286 pages, and picks up where the previous book in the series left off. like that one, it also takes about a hundred pages to really get going. the first hundred pages are taken up with more space battles, which are well described but not the most exciting ones so far.
after this, though, the book does get going. geary this time faces the threat of his enemies inside the fleet taking action. he has to try and find them, and make a few more tough decisions along with it.
subplots do move on a bit here. the romantic love triangle he's been in gets a bit of resolution. the aliens mentioned in book three don't appear but we learn a little more about them. and an interesting subplot about the course of the war begins. it will be interesting to see how it develops.
not quite the best in the series, but enough to make me want to know what will happen next
you could probably pick the story up here, but to get the most out of the series go back to the first volume and read them in order.
for those who have been following this series:
this one like all of them runs roughly 286 pages, and picks up where the previous book in the series left off. like that one, it also takes about a hundred pages to really get going. the first hundred pages are taken up with more space battles, which are well described but not the most exciting ones so far.
after this, though, the book does get going. geary this time faces the threat of his enemies inside the fleet taking action. he has to try and find them, and make a few more tough decisions along with it.
subplots do move on a bit here. the romantic love triangle he's been in gets a bit of resolution. the aliens mentioned in book three don't appear but we learn a little more about them. and an interesting subplot about the course of the war begins. it will be interesting to see how it develops.
not quite the best in the series, but enough to make me want to know what will happen next
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Similar in plot and structure to the last three books. The love triangle between Geary and the two women in his life is becoming a bit of a soap. However, Campbell has found a formula and is sticking to it. good for him!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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This fourth book by Jack Campbell is an excellent read and once the full six volumes are published they will almost make a Si-Fi classic like the thinking man's Battlestar Galactica. The first volume was brilliant. The presentation of the sequels suffer from unnecessary repitition that spoils the flow of the story dialog. If you are like me a buy all the books to read from start to finish the story resume at the beginning of each seqel, the many references to the character and story histories, and the free first chapter of the next story, mean that there is not much meat left in the sandwitch. So one starts to think are the author and publishers worried more about book sales than producing the classic that is almost there. The problem is exacerbated buy the extensive extra notes from the author at the back, interesting, but I would prefer more story.
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Continuation of a steady and successful plot
Book four takes off where book three left the reader. The Lost Fleet had just left a tolling battle in the Lakota system through a jump to the Ixion system, only to decide to... Read more
Published 7 months ago by M-I-K-E 2theD
Apparantly it's awesome
I actually bought this as a gift for my grandad how had up to number 3 but didn't have this one he has told me it's awesome and he has read it 3 times already
Published 9 months ago by Anyfish1990
Well, now its really getting interesting...
This book opens to a huge set piece battle, with the cliffhanger from Courageous being satisfyingly resolved. That takes probably near to half the book, in fact. Read more
Published 9 months ago by John Middleton
same as all the others in the series
If you read any of the previous books in the series, its the same again.
Disapointing in a way, the characters don't seem to 'grow'. Read more
Disapointing in a way, the characters don't seem to 'grow'. Read more
Published 10 months ago by L
LOst Fleet 4 - Valient
Excellent read -well written. The major plot line is obvioulsy taken from Von Spee in WWI, with bits of the Russian Baltic Fleet in 1904/5. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Ian Shaw
Excellent Story
Cant fault the story line and plot in this book. Very enjoyable and a great easy read as far as I'm concerned. Read more
Published 13 months ago by SteJ
Series is maintaining a good pace
I bought the series based on the reviews and have found them to be a good read. The author seems to be building up a lot of subplots for resolution in the final two books which I... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2009 by Mr. B. Moylan
Quality Space Warfare
I normally don't read this kind of starship trooper stuff but after the first book bought at an airport I too am hooked. Read more
Published on 28 Dec 2008 by BigAl
The Plot, like the Fleet, goes lumbering on
To cut a long story short... there's this long-lost hero, back from the dead, who has picked up the role of leading a space navy home, fighting two or three battles in every book. Read more
Published on 11 Aug 2008 by M. J. Farncombe
Does what it says on the tin
OK, so you aren't going to have this bound in hand-tooled calfskin to reread.
But I've been out in the galaxy for a few hours-is there another sinister enemy? Read more
But I've been out in the galaxy for a few hours-is there another sinister enemy? Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2008 by IAN CAMERON-MOWAT
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