The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series written by John G. Hemry under the pen name Jack Campbell. The series is set one-hundred-plus years into an interstellar war between two different human cultures, the Alliance and the Syndics, and the story encompasses 6 books which I knocked off in pretty quick time and enjoyed immensely.
1 The Lost Fleet: Dauntless 2006
2 The Lost Fleet: Fearless 2007
3 The Lost Fleet: Courageous 2007
4 The Lost Fleet: Valiant 2008
5 The Lost Fleet: Relentless 2009
6 The Lost Fleet: Victorious 2010
The series ended with Victorious (2010). The author continued the Lost Fleet series with three spin-offs: Beyond the Frontier, focusing on the main characters from the Lost Fleet; The Lost Stars, focusing on the Syndicate Worlds; Outlands, picking up where Leviathan leaves off; as well as a prequel series, The Genesis Fleet. I also read the Lost Fleet sequel seriesbut not the other series.
The Lost Fleet - Beyond the Frontier
7 Beyond the Frontier: Dreadnaught 2011
8 Beyond the Frontier: Invincible 2012
9 Beyond the Frontier: Guardian 2013
10 Beyond the Frontier: Steadfast 2014
11 Beyond the Frontier: Leviathan 2015
I really enjoyed both series which make up one continuous story, centred on Admiral Geary. Here's the scenario
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, beyond belief...
Captain John "Black Jack" Geary's legendary exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic "last stand" in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns from survival hibernation and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics.
Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance's one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic "Black Jack" legend...
It's actually a naval adventure story, although set in interstellar space. The spacemen are "sailors" and the battles come quick and fast. And Geary has to adopt a different strategy in each and every battle, to keep one step ahead of the opposing superior Syndic fleet. Over the course of the books, the main characters are developed and you start to get a mental picture of each of them.
To quote Anthony Ryan on Goodreads, who gave 5 stars
As near-perfect an example of military science fiction as it’s possible to find. Campbell mixes real-world physics and far future tech to provide a convincing picture of what fleets of huge spaceships fighting a battle at relativistic speeds might actually look like. In the character of Captain ‘Black Jack’ Geary, a resurrected military genius burdened by unasked for legendary status, this series makes a welcome addition to the ranks of great SF heroes.
I concur. 5 stars for me as well.
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