Victorious
by:
Jack Campbell (author)
As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may...
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As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup. His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781101187029 (1101187026)
Publish date: 2010-04-27
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Series: The Lost Fleet (#6)
Victorious is a fitting conclusion to what is the Lost Fleet series, dealing mainly with the aftermath of what has happened in the first five books, (the fifth of which is the best in the series), and featuring a bit more politics and a wider focus on what is occurring throughout the star systems of...
Acceptable-to-good ending for the series. You pretty much knew how it had to end, but it was still held your interest as to how it would go about getting to that ending.Good series of books, as far as space combat and "against all odds" sci-fi goes. Very much a "cold war allegory" in the sense of ...
The first five books were enjoyable space opera, if rather unbelievable. I don't have a problem with him being revived after 100 years or being able to solve a lot of the fleet's problems. But I find it hard to accept that an interstellar empire would have so few resources and experienced people. ...