Praise for jack campbells lost fleet series jack campbell has written the most believable space battles ive ever seen anywheredavid sherman, coauthor. Their only hope is a man whos emerged from a centurylong hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief. The plot of this novel revolves around the happenings in the lives of the main characters named artur drakon and gwen iceni. Every time the main character jumps into a new star system and maneuvers the author reexplains how they judge. Dauntless is a science fiction novel by american writer jack campbell, the first in his the lost fleet series, published in 2006.
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