| Victorious (The Lost Fleet, Book 6 of 6) |  | Author: Jack Campbell
Publisher: Ace
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Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0441018696
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441018697
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The Lost Fleet: Relentless found its way onto the New York Times bestseller list...
Now Victorious leads the charge again-and "Black Jack" Geary is in command...
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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 Victorious September 7, 2010
Mary Ellison (USA)
Victorious is the 6th of a series of six books by Jack Campbell that collectively tell the story of Captain John Geary and his command of the space fleet which belongs to an Alliance of worlds occupied by humans. The books in series order are: 1) The Lost Fleet: Dauntless, 2) The Lost Fleet: Fearless, 3) The Lost Fleet: Courageous, 4) The Lost Fleet: Valiant, 5) The Lost Fleet: Restless, and 6) The Lost Fleet: Victorious.
The Alliance has been in a state of war for 100 years with another group of human worlds called the Syndicated Worlds, or Syndics for short. John Geary was thought to have been killed in the early opening attacks of that war. In reality, he escaped certain doom in a survival pod launched from his Heavy Cruiser. He was placed in a state of hibernation, with the expectation that he would be picked up in a few weeks, but something went wrong. The emergency beacon on his pod failed, and he drifted until he was accidentally found 100 years later by another Alliance Battle Cruiser.
He was revived and found himself thrust into command of the entire Alliance Fleet (which was lost deep behind enemy lines) and expected to miraculously get the Fleet home safely and to put and end to the war once and for all, and he was to do this against the overwhelming forces of the Syndicate Worlds.
Compounding his problems is the fact that he must deal with a group of rebellious officers among his own crew, a love relationship that can not be acknowledged, politicians at home who want to arrest him when he gets there for a crime he has not committed and for which there is no evidence to suggest that he ever thought of committing it. And if that were not enough, he also has to deal with an unknown enemy with unknown technological capabilities that is known to exist just beyond the border that marks the extreme edge of Syndic space.
If you like SciFi that's filled with space battles based on reasonably thought out tactical plans and strategies, this series may be for you. It is much closer to reality than the Lensman series, though I will not say that is a better or worse story line. That is for the reader to decide.
Black Jack August 27, 2010
James Horlan (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Like many reviews of this book, this review will be partly for the book, and partly for the series as a whole. So if you have no idea what the Lost Fleet series is all about, you're on the wrong book, please go to the first book and start from there. Oh, if you're a newbie, don't let the cover art fool you. For some reason the publishers have Jack Geary as a soldier on the cover, when in fact he sits in a chair for most of the books, doing what commanders do.
The Lost Fleet series as a whole was an interesting read. It's a slight take on the Buck Rogers story, the military man frozen in space, and found by his people while they're hip deep in a long and endless seeming war. The Jack Geary character isn't the cocky guy that Rogers was, and indeed he's somewhat intimidated at first. And I wish we could have seen more of that, more of the initial moments and days as he came out of his cryo-sleep. Instead we got a few pages at the beginning of book one, and then some flashbacks in later books. Of course Campbell chose, or was told, to get to the action quickly. Jack finds himself in charge of the fleet due to a fluke, and somehow keeps hold of it through attempted barratries and enemy actions, not to mention the spectre of political interference. He's standing in a tippy boat, and how he keeps his balance is one of the more interesting facets of the series.
Besides Jack, the only two reasonably formed characters are Captain Desjani, and politician Victoria Rione, and they frankly could have used some work. Rione's motivations seemed unclear even to her most of the time, and I get the feeling that Campbell changed his mind a few times over the course of the books on what to do with her. Desjani was wonderful when she was being Captain of the ship and de facto Chief of Staff for Geary, but their 'romance', if you want to call it that, was where the series went off the rails. It was almost Victorian in a way, their repressed emotions and unwillingness to say what they clearly felt. I mean they did the right thing, in how they handled it, but it became too much of a part of the last few books. The love triangle aspect of it all should have been pared way down, or excised completely. Rione herself could have been edited out and the books would have been none the worse for it. The other supporting characters were interesting in the bits that we saw them in, but none stood out other than Lt. Iger from Intelligence, who deserved more page time.
The battles were fascinating, and the highlight of the 'show' for me. The ships fought the way actual spaceships likely would fight, and didn't use lasers either, thank goodness (a nod to Battlestar Galactica perhaps). Fighters weren't used except in one battle, and ships had to think of problems like fuel, munitions, and food, something many sci-fi book and TV series often forget. The devil is in the details isn't it? And Jack Campbell got so many of them right it's not even funny. I also enjoyed the virtual conferencing, which will likely be coming to a boardroom near you in the next decade, and the fact that time and space mattered for sending messages, sometimes critically.
The last book? Rushed. That's my word for it. The big buildup to the end produced.....what? I wonder if he was at the end of the book contract and his publisher was on him to wrap it up, because he could have gotten at least two more books out of the plot he had left, and I very gleefully would have bought them. And I still will buy anything he puts out next, he's a talented writer.
Overall the rating here would have been four stars because of the love triangle, even before the last book rushed the ending. But no way is this three stars, there was just too much that was good about it. Four stars.
The End? (Maybe) July 23, 2010
Todd D. Obrien (Columbia, Maryland USA)
I started with "Book 1" and this was my #1 favorite and most anticipated series over the last few years. The cover art may be cheezy, but the story and physics are realistic and captivating.
I gave it only four stars because, while it wrapped up the series (more or less), it was not the most action packed or best of the six book series. If you have read the other five, you have to read this anyway. If you have not read any yet, I would start would book one.
Definitely a series I will re-read in a few months, too.
 Great story of Lost & Fighting to Get Home June 28, 2010
Amy Mcbride (Batesville, AR USA)
I came into the Lost Fleet in the middle, I actually read "Relentless" first. Of course, then I realized there was a series and continued reading in the correct order. I could easily put myself in Captain Geary's place, follow him as he 'retrained' the crew to his "old ways of honor". I know very little about planning and excuting military battles but Jack Campbell's descriptions made them easy to follow. I could even draw out the battle on paper as it happened (in my crude way) to get a better idea of what was going on. My books were on Audible Books thru my MP3 Player so I think the Mr. Rummell, who read the series, deserves a lot of praise for his reading of "The Lost Fleet". He did a Great Job!
Victorious Rocks June 24, 2010
Christopher Wise (Albuquerque, NM United States)
This book rocks. The action is great, the characters have evolved or are evoling. Don't want to ruin the whole thing for you first time readers, but not only does Blackjack win the war in a unique way, but he also does something about the aliens leaving room for several more books and he does get the love of his life by blundering through his choices. Hope this review helps you choose this book
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