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So I was in Barnes and Noble grabbing a dog training book and saw a book that looked interesting in the new releases. It was a book in a series though so took the author's name and went back to the regular scifi section and found all of his books. After reading the backs of a few and skimming for content I decided to check them out and grabbed the first two in the series.
The author is Jack Campbell, the series is The Lost Fleet, the first book is Dauntless and the genre is military scifi. I took a break the day after I got it and started reading it only to get totally sucked in. Read it late into the night then finished up the last bit the next morning.
Very good book, IMHO, if you like the genre. It is about Captain John "Black Jack" Geary. Early in a war between the Alliance and Syndics Geary is stuck in suspended animation after his heroic last stand protecting a convoy he was escorting. Fast forward 100 years and the war still drags on. An Alliance fleet trapped deep in Syndic space finds Geary, who over the years has been blown up into some kind of mythic war hero, and due to circumstances beyond his control he is forced to take command of the fleet and attempt to bring it home safely.
Think Buck Rodgers meets Battlestar Galactica meets Voyager. The way he addresses the technical challenges presented by fleet combat in space really kept me interested.
Just finished the second book "Fearless" last night. It didn't disappoint. One thing I realized... is this is a military scifi so it won't be for everyone. Lots of fleet battles with drawn out descriptions about what is going on. It is much more tactical combat than action combat if you know what I mean.
I'm several books behind on this one. I need to take them out with me into the back yard and catch up one weekend.
He also writes a series about a spacegoing JAG under the name John G. Hemry. I love the series (which he seems to have abandoned in favor of The Lost Fleet), but I have one peeve about it -- he never describes his characters -- you don't know what they look like, and you have no clue about their uniforms.
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