Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31995 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

This IS good Sci-fi!
Think of this as a swashbuckler with spaceships, rather than mainstream sci-fi and you'll know what to expect.

In this, the second book in the series, Jack Geary atempts to get a more firm grip on the Alliance Fleet. He is slowly transforming the way the fleet fights, turning it into a more effective fighting machine, while he still needs to work carefully to remain in slightly tenuous command.
Into this unstable mix drops another 'lost' alliance hero; Captain 'Fighting' Falco. Falco's take on alliance tactics gives Geary a lot of new problems.

What I especially like about this series, is the way Campbell blends the actual laws of physics into the space battles he portrays. Unlike most sci-fi writers he manages to take the vast distances and the speed of light into account, while still keeping it entertaining.

The descriptions are precise and the action goes at a good pace. There is a bit of less than brilliantly written relationship stuff in the book, but nothing that I couldn't accept. This type of writing doesn't appear to be Campbell's forte.

I finished the book in just under 24 hours, (and would have done it faster, but my boss said I had to go to work) so it's quite an easy read, but well worth the money it costs.

You get your money's worth...what else can you ask for?

Cheap and cheerful
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
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