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| Courageous (The Lost Fleet, Book 3 of 6): 3 | 
 enlarge | Author: Jack Campbell
Publisher: Scholastic US
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 23096
Media: Paperback
Edition: Ace Mass-market Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 4.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0441015670
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780441015672
ASIN: 0441015670
Publication Date: December 18, 2007
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 Unpretentious September 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I once saw a company report which had pictures of employees and managers throughout. Oddly, only the managers seemed to have names. Courageous is a bit like that. The principle characters all have identities, but everyone else is a cipher. For example, the bridge crew of Dauntless are interchangeable 'watch standers'. The losses of the ships and their casualties appear unreal. That said, the story is a good yarn which does not pretend to real psychology. It does keep you interested, although the battles can become a bit alike. I think it is the concept of mystery being slowly revealed (very slowly), that keep readers coming back.
 I found the Lost Fleet August 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Really good, enjoyed this no end and now bought the other three books - fast paced and enjoyable.
the fleet flies on March 25, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
third in a series of science fiction novels about the lost fleet. There's an interstellar war on between two human groupings of worlds, the alliance and the syndic. the alliance space fleet are trapped behind enemy lines, and only their chance discovery of captain geary, an alliance hero of years before who was stuck in suspended animation for ages till the fleet found him, could save the day.
Can geary get the fleet home? and can he live up to the legend he's become in the meantime?
all these books run for three hundred pages. and whilst not being great literature are quite decent prose and characterisation wise.
For the first hundred pages this looked like having mid book in series syndrome, in that not much happens and things continue much as before.
However the remaining two hundred pages were really rather entertaining, as the space battles carry on in earnest, and the alliance fleet really struggle to survive. this was entertaining and engrossing reading, and the book ends on a cliffhanger that was really quite rousing and makes me desperate to know what will happen next.
I'll be back for more. the aliens promised on the back of the book are only hinted at late on. Doubtless we'll see more of them in future volumes
 Vol3 of how many - blurring into one March 21, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
New publisher trick I suppose, write a good short story and keep the public hungry for more.
This series is intriguing enough to work that trick for now. (Though 2-3 might be the same book reworked!) They are short enough to come out in an omnibus of standard paperback size in duie course... unless it goes to vol 5 and 6 (and who knows how many more!)
 Not a lot happens February 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I guess if you read book four when it comes out never having read this book (book 3)you would not even notice. Where are these aliens then? A great disappointment
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