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  • Vanguard: The Genesis Fleet, Book 1

  • Written by: Jack Campbell
  • Narrated by: Christian Rummel
  • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (84 ratings)

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Vanguard: The Genesis Fleet, Book 1

Written by: Jack Campbell
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
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Publisher's Summary

Jack Campbell returns to the world of the New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet novels with a new action-packed military science fiction series that explores the founding of the Alliance...and the men and women who fought to create it.

Earth is no longer the center of the universe. After the invention of the faster-than-light jump drive, humanity is rapidly establishing new colonies. But the vast distances of space mean that the old order of protection and interstellar law offered by Earth has ceased to exist.

When a nearby world attacks, the new colony of Glenlyon turns to Robert Geary, a young former junior fleet officer, and Mele Darcy, a onetime enlisted marine. With nothing but improvised weapons and a few volunteers, Geary and Darcy must face down warships and armored soldiers - or die trying.

As battles rage and pirates take an increasing toll throughout the colonies, the only hope for lasting peace lies with Carmen Ochoa, a "Red" from the anarchic world of Mars, and Lochan Nakamura, a failed politician. They have a plan: to lay the groundwork for mutual defense that could someday grow into an alliance. But if their efforts don't succeed, the growing power of aggressor worlds could turn regions of space founded on freedom into battlefields between the first interstellar empires.

©2017 John G. Hemry (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

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  • 2018-07-14

Excellent

This was great. A bit formulaic but I'm a sucker for sci-fi tropes. I wish Audible had told me that Book 1 was actually Book 9 or whatever, because there's a preceding series that I must now listen before I move on. Still, this was great.

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Quick, Easy Listen

Lots of plot armour, but not necessarily a bad thing. Will continue with the series!

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Very solid storyline

This book is well written with enough imagination and realism combined to tell a compelling story. The pacing is very steady from beginning to end even though it's a military space drama with combat. it's written and told in such a way that the slow parts don't seem slow and the energetic parts don't seem fast paced.

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On the edge of my seat

On the edge of my seat the entire book. I am glad I found this gem and that it had a sequel. A thrill of a read with a good sense of humor to boot.

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