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Dreadnaught

By: Jack Campbell
Narrated by: Christian Rummel, Jack Campbell - introduction
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Publisher's summary

The first book of best-selling sci-fi author Jack Campbell’s new series "Beyond the Frontier" returns to find Captain John “Black Jack" Geary, the hero of the "Lost Fleet" series, awoken from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet.

Geary’s legendary exploits have earned him the adoration of the people—and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. The century-long war between the Alliance and the Syndicate Worlds may be over, but Geary and his newly christened First Fleet have been ordered back into action to investigate the aliens occupying the far side of Syndic space and to determine how much of a threat they represent to the Alliance. And while the Syndic Worlds are no longer united, individually they may be more dangerous than ever before. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup, so he can’t help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.

William C. Dietz, the author of the "Legion of the Damned" series, calls Dreadnaught "a rousing adventure", and Elizabeth Moon, the Nebula Award-winning author of the "Vatta's War" series, says it’s “loaded with edge-of-your-seat combat". Read by Christian Rummel, who has narrated The Lost Fleet series to excellent reviews, Dreadnaught promises to be an out-of-this-world experience.

BONUS AUDIO: Includes an exclusive introduction written and read by author Jack Campbell.

Get Lost! Listen to the rest of the Lost Fleet series.
©2011 John G. Hemry (P)2011 Audible, Inc.

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The same but different

I enjoyed this book. I'd read some negative reviews but wanted to know what happened next. The internal politics was similar in construct to previous books (and I have liked it, so no change there). The Enigma race and the investigations of it were slow, and clearly will go into another book or few, and the addition (spoiler alert) ........... of an additional sentient species throws a bit of a curve at you, and that's a good thing.

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Best book of the series

FANTASTIC. There's not much else to say. In my opinion this is the best book of the entire series to date. I cannot wait for the next. I love how the author blends in an alien society and makes us think about how human society interacts with each other versus how aliens might. The concept of water filled ships was just plain awesome. The interactions between the characters has been depened here more than I thought possible. Yes, I'm rambling now but I encourage everyone to read this book. It really is one of his best.

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Awesomeness

This series is absolutely amazing. I found it very hard to put all of this series books down. I also have to give kudos to the narrator, his voice distinctions are excellent and made for a great listen.

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Good to see the series continue but....

Found this a good continuation of the Lost Fleet series... but it seemed as though the narrator ignored the last half of the book. On listening, when I got to the final section, I assumed that it would then jump to the next part of the audio book... but it just stopped! If this was a paper back book, I would be looking to see who had stolen the last sections of the book.

I assume that the next novel in the series will address the problem, but it makes it rather unsatisfactory to leave the story hanging in mid air.

I was disappointed to find how limited a story this audio book was.

Ho hum - let us see what the next novel brings.

John

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Don't bother

This is more a note to myself to remember not to bother with any more in this series.
This book was boring and endless...

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Slow Slow Slow

I couldn't wait for this story to be over. It was slow and was 90% talking, 5% lets run away from these aliens, and 5% more made up simple politics.

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Plod, plod, plod, rehash, rehash rehash

It had been a while since I finished the lost fleet series, where at least the plot engaged. The same stilted dialog, the same love triangle, the same political machinations, the same self-righteous pomposity. Why did I buy this? Wish I hadn't. Buyer beware.

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Impressive battle movements, great storyline.

I’m very impressed with the author’s research into the theoretical areas of the storyline. The main characters interactions ate also extremely plausible and well laid out. I’m throughly hooked on this as with the previous series. My only negative is the music, although done to enhance the experience; I find it too loud and often playing for far to long. I think it actually detracts from the listening experience.

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Humanity encounters enigmatic aliens for 1st time

Perhaps because this book effectively starts a spin-off series from a previous series, I felt that the character development was bit lacking. Otherwise, this is a solid story with potential for a quality military sci-fi series.

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After the end of a war with the "syndicate group", a lost commander (Black Jack), since elevated to mythic hero, has been found in a cryogenic stasis. He is revived and made commander of the military forces. While politicians want to slash military spending and consolidate their power, humans have their first encounter with extraterrestrials. Black Jack is sent into the distance alien territory to possibly broker peace with these new neighbors. He not only finds that these aliens are anti-social, and refuse to engage in dialogue with him, but that human leaders probably have ulterior motives for ordering his fleet on this multifaceted assignment.

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Minor editing issues

A few times, the editor cut together the narrator’s audio together so closely that you couldn’t tell that the story had switched location, characters, or time. One sentence the narrator would be in one scene, and the next something totally different with no pause of any kind in the audio. First few times it happened I kept rewinding, thinking I had accidentally skipped forward.

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