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Dreadnaught, the first book in the Beyond the Frontier series, picks up just one month after the last events of The Lost Fleet series, although if you haven’t read those first six books you can still follow what’s going on in this new series. The Lost Fleet was about the war between the righteous but […]

Victorious is the final book in The Lost Fleet series and one of its best. Given the title, it won’t come as a surprise that the book narrates how Jack Geary finally manages to win the war against the Syndics. But Victorious also leaves some mysteries unsolved and a few lose ends that will be […]

If you only read one book of the Lost Fleet series, it should be Relentless. Likewise, if you began the series and gave up, skip the third and fourth and go straight to this fifth book. There is plenty of action and the author gives us enough background to understand what has been going on […]

Courageous is the third book in the Lost Fleet series, and even though in some ways it feels weaker than the previous two, it has more than enough conflict and unanswered questions to make one look forward to the following books. Persistence and patience The main problem with Courageous is that it is too much […]

Science fiction is in the depths of a crisis. Like so many other institutions and traditions in the West, it has been hollowed out, co-opted, and turned into a parody of what it once was. We are told to believe that war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. What was science fiction […]