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Boundless (The Lost Fleet: Outlands, #1)
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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The first in a new series by Jack Campbell but following characters previously introduced in his 'Lost Fleet' series (never mind the various spin-offs, including the 'Lost Stars' series) and so, as a result, I'm not sure it would really be a good 'jumping-on' point for any new readers to the series.

For those who *have* read the previous aforementioned series, though?

You know what you're getting: more politics, more 'real time' space action and more intrigue, with Captain 'Jack Black' Geary surviving assassination attempts on his life and put in charge of a mission to contact the aliens known as 'The Dancers', who have popped up in previous novels.

More of the same, really, but sometimes that's no bad thing!
  
Star Wars X-Wing: The Bacta War
Star Wars X-Wing: The Bacta War
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5.0 (1 Ratings)
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This is the book 4 in the 'original' (as in, Rogue Squadron, not Wraith Squadron) mid-90s series of Star Wars novels, following on from the earlier novels [book:Rogue Squadron|513176], [book:Wedge's Gamble|513198] and [book:The Krytos Trap|513200].

Here' we're still following the exploits - mainly - of Corran Horn and his fellow X-Wing pilots, as they resign from The New Republic (at the end of the previous novel) in order to launch an all-out war on the Imperial dictator Ysanne Isard, who has now taken control of the planet Thyferra where the miracle healing agent Bacta originates from.

So, Top Gun in space, basically.

I still find these more enjoyable than the newer, post-Disney acquisition, novels such as [book:Alphabet Squadron|42207529]