Campbell ends his six-book series in fine form – Captain John Geary is one battle away from bringing the fleet home. All that stands in the way is a final Syndic ‘reserve’ flotilla. Given that this only takes up a very small section at the beginning of the book and that readers of the series are more than familiar with Geary’s reputation as an excellent tactician, it is not really a spoiler when I tell you that Geary saves the day. Again.
Once again in Alliance space, Geary has to deal with the government rather than the military. For those interested in the politics and more plotty aspects of the series, Geary’s meeting with the Alliance council will be a very satisfying chunk of book. Geary, quickly promoted to Admiral, tasks himself with returning to Syndicate Space to end the war – the theory being that the Syndic fleet has...
Once again in Alliance space, Geary has to deal with the government rather than the military. For those interested in the politics and more plotty aspects of the series, Geary’s meeting with the Alliance council will be a very satisfying chunk of book. Geary, quickly promoted to Admiral, tasks himself with returning to Syndicate Space to end the war – the theory being that the Syndic fleet has...
- 5/27/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
Jack Campbell’s military science fiction series reaches its penultimate instalment in Relentless. The book opens with an account of Captain John Geary’s courageous and legend-making battle that started the galactic war the books describe over one hundred years ago, that has been referred to frequently throughout the previous four books, but never given a full description. Here, we get to read of the fraught battle and of Geary’s rescue from hibernation sleep a century later.
The book is much the same as its predecessors: politics, tactics, conspiracies and an unspoken romance bridge the gaps between large scale space battles. It’s perhaps unlikely to change anyone’s world, but fans of the series will be eager to catch another dose of Campbell’s moreish prose, before the grand conclusion in the final novel.
Relentless also features a ground battle, another first for the series, in which POWs are rescued,...
The book is much the same as its predecessors: politics, tactics, conspiracies and an unspoken romance bridge the gaps between large scale space battles. It’s perhaps unlikely to change anyone’s world, but fans of the series will be eager to catch another dose of Campbell’s moreish prose, before the grand conclusion in the final novel.
Relentless also features a ground battle, another first for the series, in which POWs are rescued,...
- 5/26/2011
- by Jack Kirby
- Nerdly
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