Jack Campbell
John Geary continues to lead his fleet trying to get back to Alliance territory. He is teaching the military how to be disciplined again, teaching new tactics and dealing with internal strife as rival captains question his every move. In the end, his legend keeps growing as he keeps winning battles (here he helps destroy a Syndicate shipbuilding system) in this military science fiction. I particularly like the battle story telling as we are treating battles of massive distances accurately. The biggest skill that Geary has is that he can direct a battle with "time-late" information. That is, what he is seeing is "old information" since distances are so big. His fleet is spread across portions of a light hour, so he can't give real-time instructions. That strategic barrier alone, treated well, makes this series worth reading.
4 stars (out of 4)
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