Swords and Saddles, Jack Campbell
Swords and Saddles, Jack Campbell
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Swords and Saddles

Author: Jack Campbell

Narrator: Adam Verner

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/27/2016


Synopsis

Swords and Saddles is a must-listen collection of three novellas from New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell.

The Rift: Answering a distress call from a colonized planet, a combat team finds themselves ambushed. They manage to scrabble their way to a remote research facility in the countryside, joining a group of schoolchildren that have holed up with the researchers—three groups united in fear that their lives will last only as long as they can avoid discovery by the aliens that have come to their planet.

Swords and Saddles: When lightning strikes Captain Ulysses Benton and his U.S. Cavalry Fifth Regiment, they recover to find an ancient structure in the desert that they've never seen before—and writing in a language none of them recognize. It soon becomes clear that wherever it is they are, it isn't 1870s Kansas.

Failure to Obey: When Lieutenant Jen Shen saves the day after a terrorist attack on a space station, she gets a medal, but Ivan Sharpe, a fellow officer and Paul's former master-at-arms, gets a court martial. In a classic court martial scene that rivals the best in American literature, Paul has to work behind the scenes to save Ivan's military career.

About Jack Campbell

Jack Campbell is the pen name for John G. Hemry, a retired naval officer. John graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis before serving with the surface fleet and in a variety of other assignments. He is the author of the Lost Fleet and the Lost Stars series, as well as the Stark's War series and the Paul Sinclair series. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog magazine. He lives with his indomitable wife and three children in Maryland.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Ian

1.8⭐ Rounded up Not one of Campbell's best; 3 fairly pedestrian novellas. The first story is a scifi retelling of the battle of Rork's Drift (called " The Rift," get it?), with aliens replacing Zulus, to nobody's benefit. Second is your basic interdimensional displacement story, with a U.S. cavalry t......more

When I was in high school (that would have been the 1960s) and before I was a reader of short stories. As I've gotten older I've steered away from short stories. They always seem to leave me with the feeling I tried to make a meal of an appetizer. Well, this book is made up of short stories/novellas......more

Goodreads review by Robert

Three stories, three different settings, three entertaining experiences which work as one shots - and two of which would be great starting points for entirely new series (the third isn't because it already is part of the Sinclair stories).......more

Goodreads review by Michael

This is a collection of three longer-than-short science fiction stories (does that make sense?), and these are pretty good. I usually don't read that many short stories, but Campbell is a science fiction writer I like, and I've read his space opera series called The Lost Fleet and decided to pick th......more