tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post7708833401053573067..comments2024-03-18T13:23:34.231+00:00Comments on The Speculative Scotsman: Book Review | The Lost Fleet: Dauntless by Jack CampbellAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08713791516631476930noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-39088512433210117772017-05-29T15:29:12.233+01:002017-05-29T15:29:12.233+01:00Ummmnn... Only just started reading this book and ...Ummmnn... Only just started reading this book and am enjoying it despite Geary's tendency to go on and on about his feelings when he really should be parking them for a more suitable moment - compartmentalise, man! And you say this is masculine sci-fi... <br /><br />From a girly girl who finds your view on gender to be rather hilarious. Idlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08244639649341362911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-48462729456963767002011-06-01T18:06:08.203+01:002011-06-01T18:06:08.203+01:00Really liked your review, Nial!
Where's the h...Really liked your review, Nial!<br /><br />Where's the harm in saying this one book's more for the boys, anyway? I think that's fair enough. Not the whole genre, but Dauntless - sure. And who'd disagree with someone saying some chicklit novel was aimed at the ladies?alan_CBRhttp://www.comicbookresources.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-64661885297464479872011-05-31T12:43:41.384+01:002011-05-31T12:43:41.384+01:00Are you speaking to the later books in The Lost Fl...Are you speaking to the later books in The Lost Fleet, axe? No spoilers - I might just read them eventually - but if that's the case, if the characterisation improves enough that there are folks prepared to mount a defence of it, then all the better.<br /><br />I wouldn't go half so far as anonymous does, anyway - though I'll say I did find much of Dauntless a bit single-minded, and that mind very little concerned with such questions of accessibility.<br /><br />But onwards! To Fearless, even...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08713791516631476930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-64905961225388366522011-05-30T19:41:36.265+01:002011-05-30T19:41:36.265+01:00I think you do the author a disservice. It's n...I think you do the author a disservice. It's not just a "silly military SF with little interest in women as anything as objects".<br /><br />It is a "silly" military SF, and it treats all its cast members as soldiers - because, well they are soldiers. As the story and all the other side characters are developed further on, the female characters are also consequently fleshed out. Similar to the Malazan books, the author portrays that how in a military in which physical prowess is not key - there wouldn't be much differentiation between sexes.<br /><br />This approach is not really new; Honor Harrington and the Vorkosigan saga have a similar "desexualization" in the depicted military. To leap from that to "objectification" of women is a tad sophomoric.axehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869406769544026682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-57638907739022960032011-05-30T14:15:04.412+01:002011-05-30T14:15:04.412+01:00No! Geeky girls totally exist! But I fear The Lost...No! Geeky girls totally exist! But I fear The Lost Fleet will worry even such wondrous creatures.<br /><br />Pretty much what Anonymous said except, well, I enjoyed it. Almost despite myself - hence the guilty pleasure bit. As I said, you'll know if it's for you - irrespective of your gender, I should perhaps stress - within a few pages. So there's that.<br /><br />Oh, and space battles. And 'splosions. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08713791516631476930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-71076402918662246472011-05-30T13:56:36.196+01:002011-05-30T13:56:36.196+01:00I don't think niall was saying that at all. Th...I don't think niall was saying that at all. The Lost Fleet is just silly military SF with little interest in women as anything other than objects. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, woman or man, but whatever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6498739347909985243.post-79782654248762753582011-05-30T13:47:32.553+01:002011-05-30T13:47:32.553+01:00"Dauntless is about conquest, survival, and t..."Dauntless is about conquest, survival, and the glory of sacrifice."<br /><br />It's lucky you warned me. I shall remove this book from my TBR pile immediately, and stick to books about shopping and friendship and true love.<br /><br />In all seriousness, you really think only geeky guys like military sf? What, geeky girls don't exist?Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01444537265462910840noreply@blogger.com