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bunny_watson 's review for:
Dauntless
by Jack Campbell
First book in a great space opera series. Blurb by William Dietz says "A rousing adventure...the kind of hero Hornblower fans will love" and that really says it all. If you like your heroes so noble it kinda hurts, Black Jack Geary's the one for you.
As a young soldier he's assumed killed in a particularly valiant military action at the start of a war. One hundred years later that war's still going on and his cryogenically frozen body is recovered from a "life raft". In a fast change of circumstances, he's forced to take command of a fleet deep in enemy territory in a desperate effort to get them home.
The adventure's good but what I particularly like about this universe is how the author portrays how 100 years of all-out war has altered how people think and react, and the culture shock Geary experiences as a result. And the science of fighting in space is explained well and with some interesting scientific insight.
Reading it was a nice way to spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
As a young soldier he's assumed killed in a particularly valiant military action at the start of a war. One hundred years later that war's still going on and his cryogenically frozen body is recovered from a "life raft". In a fast change of circumstances, he's forced to take command of a fleet deep in enemy territory in a desperate effort to get them home.
The adventure's good but what I particularly like about this universe is how the author portrays how 100 years of all-out war has altered how people think and react, and the culture shock Geary experiences as a result. And the science of fighting in space is explained well and with some interesting scientific insight.
Reading it was a nice way to spend New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.