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Constitution: Book 1 of The Legacy Fleet Series Kindle Edition

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The year is 2650.
75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth.
Without warning. Without mercy.
We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything.
Then, the aliens abruptly left.
We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. And the aliens never came back.
Until now.
With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted.
Now, only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction: ISS CONSTITUTION

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Legacy Fleet: an epic military space opera

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Nick became a scientist so that he could build starships. Unfortunately, his ship is taking longer to build than he'd hoped, so fictional starships will have to do for now. When he's not adding to his starship collection, you can find him tweeting and facebooking about Nasa, science, space, SciFi, and quoting Star Trek II.

He lives in Alabama with his wife, 2 kids, and 3 motorcycles.

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Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Sharon M.

Awesome

Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2024

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Loved this book. As a Former Army MP, I love strategy. This book is very well written and the strategy that is used we have done ourselves. The Navy has there war book and maneuvers and this writer seems to understand how it goes. It is great on how he can maneuver space and get things done. There are no winners in war only survivors. Can't wait to read the next book.

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Marybeth G.

Fast pace

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024

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For Star Trek or Star War fans. Great space battles. Can't wait for what's next and when the VP is exposed.

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Pixie Doodle

Sci fi, not fantasy.

Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024

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Bought the set for my husband. Was not sure if he would like it but he says the first one is great. Outer space, aliens and humans trying to survive.

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Mark

Screen play for Battlestar Galactica Reboot Season 1!? And - bad science!

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2016

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Shows promise and I will complete the book as I want to find out what happens. I have to say (complain?) though that the plot reads like the first season of the Battlestar Galactica (BSG) recent reboot. Substitute Adama for the Constitution's CPT, Colonel Saul Tigh as for the Constitution's drunk XO, the Galactica, of course, for the Constitution, the Cylons for the Swarm and you've got the story - to include the venerable old ship that survived the original war being turned into a museum because the Cylons, I mean the Swarm, have disappeared and everyone believes they're gone forever and folks just need to move on. So close, in fact, that my mental picture of the ship and crew are that of the BSG show.

Wanted to add something about the "science" of the book as I got a little further in the book. In the descriptions of the battle around the moon (Lunar Base), a major defense base between the moon and earth, etc. there was a lot about how "far" the distances were and how difficult it was for the ship to view the battle above the lunar base that they had just left minutes before in-route to earth and how "pixelated" the video was of the battle around the defense station (between lunar orbit and earth?). Currently, with a decent telescope, you could have seen in pretty good detail the our lunar landing on the moon from earth - so you're telling me that in the future when we have interstellar space travel we can't see a battle over the moon from a ship in orbit?
Also, per the book - their technology that allows travel between the stars is called the "q-jump". Each q-jump, per the book, equals 1/10 of a light year. In the book, it states that a ship had to "q-jump" to escape the lunar battle and get to the relative safety of earth. The distance from the moon to the earth is only .0000000406 light years - significantly less than 1/10 of a light year which a single "q-jump" equals. Too sum up, it appears the author ignored science and known/real distances between earth and its moon for the sake of "space action"!

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David Bradley

Humanity , just give us a common enemy and let us do the rest.

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2023

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I enjoy Military Sci-Fi. This was an interesting read.

Humanity survived an alien invasion 75 years ago. No one knows why. It's been long enough for humanity to forget and become complacent. Now the aliens are back and humanity has to rely on the Oldest Ship in the Fleet. Somehow we will pull it off, and save our planet and its people.

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Excellent story

Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023

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Great story with interesting characters. Great way that the author gave the back stories on the main ones. Still looking forward to the next stories to see the interaction of the VP and Russians

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Tokyo James

Slow starting Space Opera

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2015

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I began reading this in anticipation of disappointment and that's what I initially got. Frankly, the first few background chapters were so bad that I put the book aside for another SF action novel followed by a history of post-Columbus intercontinental biological cross-fertilization. Nevertheless, since I am somewhat both a mizer and a masochist, I picked it up again, and as I struggled on eventually found the tale to be pretty good space opera in the Doc. Smith tradition. The crew members of Constitution and their interactions are very much unoriginal original Star Trek. (We even have a chief engineer called Scotty. though female.) Still the battle scenes are exciting with lots of human sacrifice and the science behind the weapons isn't too bad although we all should know that given current physics and materials science spaceship armor is not likely to be very effective against near lightspeed projectles or antimatter particle weapons no matter how thick or of what composition,etc.

Melodrama, of which space opera is one variety, always rescues the protagonists from certain death and condemns minor characters to the cruelty of unjust fate. (For my generation whether in pulp or on the silver screen such tales were called cliff-hangers, or for you younger folk think Indiana Jones.) That's the case here and the mystery as with the "Cliff Hangers" of the 1930's and 1940's leaves us panting with anticipation for the next installment in the series. which it seems the author has in works. Okay, that's fine with me I enjoyed this one after we got past the clumsy background setting and in spite of the not so subtle bashing of apparently "President-for-life" Putin and resurrected Russian Imperialism and slaps at "not-so-much-in-the shadows" VP Joe. I'll buy the next book in the series and hope for improvements in the set-up and politics while expecting more of the John Wayne blood and thunder and good old fashioned let's kick some alien backside or goop or whatever. My advice to readers --- be patient for a good space-opera read and to the author --- work on integrating the necessary backgound and set-up information into the main story line. For the latter as a good example, look at how you had Grange 'fess up to why he and his deceased XO were nearly court-martialed and instead assigned to a career dead-end assignment. As Shakespeare reminds us in a "Midsummer's Night Dream" actions tell us the story better than verbose description.

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S. Perkins

great story, great characters

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023

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Webb’s writing is good. His story flows naturally without dwelling too much on any one aspect - balanced. I do wish he’d use good and well correctly, but that was a very minor distraction.

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Don Lacey

Sci fi as it was intended

Reviewed in Canada on August 3, 2018

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Discredited captain with old tired ship saves humanity......loved it.

S. Hardy

Borrowed it to read it, now I'm going to purchase the series.

Reviewed in Japan on September 27, 2017

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Typical Navy, typical bureaucracy, (in spaceships )with an empiristic bent and drawing down the military after a war with aliens meets an alien reload invasion. The shiny new ships, top of the line, and prettier than those that survived the war, well, they don't fare so well in real fights. The old ships, the survivors of a war, how they do is the story... Good tale complete with REMF newbie and demoted jokesters , I borrowed this book, read it and now I'm going to buy it and the rest of the series. Make your own choice, but that is what I'm doing. The fifth star missing is just due to wanting it to be longer.

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Mark Rosser

Don't get your BSG in a Twist!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 29, 2016

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As an avid reader of Science Fiction/Space Operas it can be difficult to find books with original ideas or an author with talent enough to approach the familiar from a fresh angle.

First off I'm surprised at the amount of reviews which have negatively and quite incorrectly compared Constitution to Battlestar Galactica, admittedly there is a small similarity at the start of the book however it soon breaks away from this to stand on its own as a strong story with well developed and realistic characters who the reader warms to as the story goes on and they become fully realized individuals who I as the reader wanted to succeed against the enemy. There is also a thread of political intrigue which runs through the book but this takes the back burner against the main story however I'm sure this will be expanded on over the next 2 books.

But really Battlestar Galactica? Nope, those readers either didn't get past the first few chapters of the book or beyond the pilot episode of BSG.

I actually purchased the next 2 books Warrior and Victory when I was about a quarter into Constitution and found the story compelling, finishing the book in around 3 days. I don't need to go over the story line or throw in any spoilers as there are plenty of other reviews to read for these details.

The Legacy Fleet world has also been been expanded on further by Authors Moira Katson (Meridian) and Saul Tanpepper (Ascendance). Moira kindly sent me a copy of Meridian to read for and give an honest review but as I wasn't familiar with The Legacy Fleet series I felt the beginning is always a good place to start and I strongly recommend you do too. I don't think you will be disappointed.

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Denis Beurive

Un livre divertissant.

Reviewed in France on May 28, 2016

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Ce livre n’est pas « le livre du siècle » : il ne faut pas chercher dans ce livre la réflexion profonde, l’innovation, l’originalité ou le style. Il ne rentre pas « dans la même catégorie » que les romans de Peter Watts, ou Cixin Liu, par exemple.

Toutefois, dans sa catégorie (« petit roman divertissant »), il est bon. Le lecteur passe un moment agréable.

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Andreas Lermen

War OK

Reviewed in Germany on August 12, 2015

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Ich habe mir das Buch aus Neugierde auf mein Iphone geladen.
Prinzipiell gibt es da nicht viel neues, erinnert mich ein bisschen an die Neuauflage von Battlestar Galactica. Auf der anderen Seite war es genau das was man von einer klassischen Space Opera erwartet. Der Schreibstil ist gut, einige Überraschungen. Deutlich besser als die Galactic Empire Wars Serie. Ich würde mir den zweiten Teil auch kaufen, Preis Leistung ist OK.

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