Albion Lost

The Exiled Fleet #1

by Richard Fox

For centuries, the Daegon waited. They plotted. And now they are ready to strike. The core worlds of settled space enjoy a tenuous peace, unaware and ill prepared for the threat building beyond the furthest reaches of humanity. The star kingdom of Albion stands as a shining light of justice and mercy in a harsh galaxy, and they will be the first to suffer the Daegon's fury. Defying his low born status, and despite his self-doubt, Commodore Thomas Gage has risen through the ranks by sheer grit and determination, defending Albion from brutal pirate clans. And when the onslaught comes, Gage and his fleet may be Albion's last hope for freedom. A new military science-fiction series for fans of Honor Harrington, Earth Alone and Old Man’s War from the author of the best-selling Ember War Saga.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction, Space Opera, Audiobook, Space, Amazon, Military Science Fiction

461 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2017

About the author

Richard Fox is a Nebula Award nominated author, and winner of the 2017 Dragon Award for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy novel, author of The Ember War Saga, a military science fiction and space opera series, and other novels in the military history, thriller and space opera genres.

He lives in fabulous Las Vegas with his incredible wife and three boys, amazing children bent on anarchy.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) much to his surprise and spent ten years on active duty in the United States Army. He deployed on two combat tours to Iraq and received the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star and Presidential Unit Citation.

The Ember War Saga:
1. The Ember War
2. The Ruins of Anthalas
3. Blood of Heroes
4. Earth Defiant
5. The Gardens of Nibiru
6. Battle of the Void
7. The Siege of Earth
8. The Crucible
9. The Xaros Reckoning

Terran Armored Corps
1. Iron Dragoons
2. The Ibarra Sanction
3. The True Measure
4. A House Divided
5. The Last Aeon
6. Ferrum Corde

Terran Strike Marines
1. The Dotari Salvation
2. Rage of Winter
3. Valdar's Hammer
4. The Beast of Eridu
5. Gott Mit Uns

The Exiled Fleet:
1. Albion Lost
2. The Long March
3. Finest Hour
4. Point of Honor

The Terra Nova Chronicles
1. Terra Nova
2. Bloodlines
3. Wings of Redemption
4. Hale's War

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Website: www.richardfoxauthor.com

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book started off really slow, and I almost put it down a time or two. About 60% into it, the pace picked up and it was almost as if there was a different (better) author completing it.

However, what annoyed me the most is the book ended literally right in the middle of a scene – and if you want to know what happens you need to get the next book. Seriously, more SF authors need to learn to have a reasonable conclusion without leaving their readers hanging. Luckily, I read this for free with my Kindle Unlimited subscription.

[Jesse McDermid · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked this one up as part of my Prime Reading subscription, hoping to get lucky. I didn’t. The setting is a bland futuristic version of 19th century Europe in space and the main character is a bland all-round good guy with amazing abilities.

[Kristen B R · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring AF.

[Red Tide]

Rating: minus 4

I wrote so many mildly critical reviews, which are in need of revision. As I revisited them, I am embarrassed by my desperate attempts to find some value in low effort awful science fiction. The last two decades have seen a shift in publisher standards, causing an acceptance for plot hole and contrivance, thin or non-existent world building, lack of character development and some very overt, ugly political rants posing as novels. I began appreciating books, whose only positive might be a lack of racial slurs or misogynistic portrayals. Less than five years of Amazon/Goodreads began even changing my perception of the acceptable and I was a communist when younger. 😑

Before I tackle these rewrites to what I now admit are a fairly toxic site, I have begun watching YouTube as a soul bracer. This was brought to you by Sci-Finatics, Acollierastro, KernowDamo, The Confused Adipose, Jean's Thoughts, AllShorts, Mia Mulder, Supernatural4ever, Second Thought, BabyMetal, May, FunnyLilGal, Adiemus - Carmina Slovenica, James Somerton, Lore Reloaded, Oliver Lugg, Agro Squerril Narrates, JuLingo, Verilybitchie, Gemma Dyer, Curious Droid, Just Write, Narrowboat Pirate, Mandy - web series, History with Hilbert, Crecganford, Alt Shift X, Bella Ciao - Nikolay Kutuzov, Terrible Writing Advice.

This book has a weak background universe, even by the standards of low effort fiction. The book's background is based on a seventeenth or early eighteenth century European (ostensibly English) view of the world. To apply that model religiously to a multiple star system culture is limited in imagination and limiting in editorial opportunities for correction. The polities include a Cathay, Indus, Francia, Reich and miscellaneous pirate groups. The main characters include a Swiss Guard equivalent, which in this book is something like a holy order. That is it. Enough, not close. Logical, hardly.

At the end of the book, it is mentioned several times about centuries since the great Solar System disaster. The number of centuries is not given. The move from barely established Martian colonies to interstellar travel is never discussed. The development of human society is reduced to generic space fantasy. The interstellar community is almost feudal and after rereading this book, I am thinking it is a more fractured inaccurate portrayal of a fantastic interpretation of a late sixteenth century world with a late seventeenth century overlay. The result is a mess.

The Reich is a scary construct and a red flag. The concept of an empire was not even a pleasant drug induced dream in a Prussian Prince's tiny little mind in the model for this universe. Any German state defeating the French Kingdom troubles me because I have seen something similar in other faux historically based space adventures. The German temporary victory against France is so, so very misunderstood by many English language writers and readers that it brings the historian to tears.

There is a narrative that follows as so. "The German military was fantastically armed, splendidly led, comprised of superior warriors, ahead of its time and rolled over France with no problem in record time." None of the above is true. It is the narrative beloved of the "Wehraboo", which term I expect that you will investigate for yourself, because you are a big girl or boy. The actual history of 1933 to 1941 is fascinating and sad. The history of the 1939-40 campaign almost reads as a comedy, a brutal, blood soaked, unnecessary comedy, written by clowns. The 1939-40 campaign is tale of indiscipline, false expectations, ineffectual civilian and military leadership and 1914 arrogance. That is just for Germany but the other European countries were as bad. Lastly while on the subject "blitzkrieg" was coined by Americans, I think but was never used by Nazi military planners or writers. The origins of German doctrine are easily traced back to at least Frederick the Great, of which you being clever are already aware. The actual German doctrinal term is Bewegungskrieg. One might expect that my NeoNazi, libertarian and white nationalist fans would be aware of all the above but they are not. It does unfortunately require the ability and will to read, neither of which they possess. I do not judge, I merely explain.

A writer (bad US military science fiction have many) who feels the need to introduce the "Germans defeat the French" in a science fiction future, has a problematic political viewpoint or ignorance of history. The first can not be corrected but the second is avoided by several minutes of research, which a writer should do before any writing assignment. Of course that does not include this genre because "It's just science fiction". I learned that expression from commenters to my reviews, which proved to me that Goodreads do serve a purpose. 🤗

That centuries of human settlement resulted in just five kingdoms is pathetically limited. The extent of any of these polities is not given. That neither a sense of the size of the kingdom of Albion nor their military is odd, given the entire book rests on the enormity of the fall of the kingdom.

Historically mercenaries are usually used as bodyguards to prevent any thought of an overthrow of the monarch by some treasonous faction, usually a relative. Swiss mercenaries were bloody-minded, professionals but they were a source of income for their canton not the Knights Templar. To cast these bodyguards as almost holy warriors with less explanation than that for the origin of the Jedi, is too weird for words.

Britain in space was fun but Albion are led by idiots from Admirals to the monarchy and the remainder of the government are not described at all. The holes in what should be at least the barebones of the context emphasizes the over-dependence on overly described meaningless battles from close combat to fleet action to move the story along.

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The characters almost become human for moments but that ends before any such encumbered scene ends. The Commodore or commander leading a raid against pirates is weird but before the scene ends, he makes a comment to the just freed female captives that they were lucky to have not been violently raped because these pirates were disciplined. Beyond cringe-y. Most of the dialogue runs from cringe to melodramatic. The saddest realization with this book, was that these writers imagine these lines deliver emotion and character depth. I am not sure why I tried the second book. I think that I hoped somehow the series gets better or at least that the background universe becomes more interesting. Neither happens.

The level of thought given to reviews of Amazon titles, especially the loan selection by readers is detrimental. Mindlessly accepting these action adventure failures with four or five stars sets a floor to acceptable judgements that guarantees publishers will pipeline more of the same. I saw in myself an increasing tolerance of bad writing and an expectation of disappointment with each title. That should not be the hidden price for a bit of entertainment.

Most of the Amazon selection of science fiction are dismal. Finding most of these focusing on defence of misogynistic sexual roles or the normality of twisted anti-working class descriptions, crazy cultural structures of racist fantasy or fascistic/libertarian predictive rants, I have all but given up on print. All fiction not just science fiction but all fiction. Fortunately YouTube essayists and fiction commentators have helped me slowly rekindle an interest in reading.

I admit that for me watching is preferable to reading, at the moment. YouTube host DUST, Omeleto and other short film channels, offer stories which are really well written and some are truly stunning. The streaming services offer many good products, even though some are dreadful. As a rule they are entertaining and the bad are easily identified early and as easily switched off.

YouTube science fiction commentators and essayists reminded me that science fiction is really important as a landscape of dreams. The recommendations are sound and well explained. Lore Reloaded, Alt Shift X, Amanda the Jedi, Jessie Gender, Steve Shives, Certifiably Ingame, Hello Future Me, Harbo Wholmes, Book Furnace, Eckharts Ladder, Beautifully Bookish Bethany, Dominic Noble, Crow Caller, Part Time Hobbit, The Little Platoon, Wayward Winchester, Jay Exci, Biz Barclay, Princess Weekes, Sci-Fi Odyssey, The Confused Adipose and Mauler are a small sample of good fiction commentary.

Moving from lifestyle, educational, hobby and essayist channels, I fell in love with the book and writing channels. 😍 They are leaders of rich communities of thoughtful, friendly readers, enamoured of all things bookish. The educational and essayist channels often embed sponsor spots for educational video sites. They are all interesting and offer large collections of videos.

About Amazon/Goodreads discourse. My final break with this site's pretence at something other than a shill for the bad book and haven for worse readers, came after I wrote a very short negative review about eighteen months ago. The book was Powers of the Earth, a badly written standard salute to the January 6, 2021 hero by Travis Corcoran. He is a self-described libertarian, advocate for the return of chattel slavery - of course, a supporter of Putin's Russia -of course, a US veteran and an employee of an unnamed US agency. After an almost year long ordeal and pages of comment from the writer and six or so of his friends (all of whom I had encountered previously), a Claes Rees Jr/cgr710 wrote a comment declaring that They had "won" (?).

It transpired that They had launched a year long flood of vile sexual and racist comments against channels which I mentioned. They failed to impress the Oxford astrophysicist, the lovely boating couple, the English culture essayist or any of the many other female creators. They did successfully increase the world's overabundance of ugliness and delivered an important and accurate portrait of the twisted American man-child lacking restraint or morality. Those both were probably a victory to these animals. USA! Yay??

To Claes Rees Jr and Travis Corcoran - Glory to Ukraine!

My YouTube picks of the moment.
LuckyBlackCat, Alice Cappelle, Mia Mulder, History with Cy, Elina Charatsidou, Geo Girl, Annie's Literary Empire, Owen Jones, Ro Ramdin, Cambrian Chronicles, JohnTheDuncan, Welcome to Ukraine, Northern Narrowboaters, Kings and Generals, Perun.

As for Amazon/Goodreads, please consider treating this as a potentially hostile site. 😐

Ominous music begins. 🙂 I gave a glimpse above into the behaviour of a significant minority (hopefully) of the membership. They are vicious and attempted the tricks I have read of them using in other "Cancel" campaigns. US Freedom lovers seem to have a serious issue with freedom of thought, free speech or difference of perspective. I am just a Communist myself, so I do not understand their mental illness.

The more dangerous actions are those involving Amazon techs supporting and abetting those nutcases. My limited message history with a friend was used to involve Australian Intelligence as a favour to US Intelligence apparently in investigating my private life. I know, you like me are shocked that Australia has time and energy to invade a reader's privacy, while a famous citizen (Julian Assange) is still detained by the US Freedom loving government. I should feel flattered I think but for some reason am very angry instead.

Hopefully you have not had kindle service suffer mysterious outages for days at a time, your ability to unfriend "friends" blocked, your end of book automatic transition to the Review and Rate page disabled, your upload to Goodreads blocked over weeks at a stretch, your Community Review tab removed from your review pages, your commenters' names masked, your view of other reviews blocked and a few other bits of harassment.

In the unlikely event that your situation changes, I suggest a few precautions. A start is to minimize profile information, remove lurkers (those mysterious friends who never post), stay wary of site messaging, screenshot the odd and the ugly. They cost you nothing to implement but to not might do. This is a corporation which sell customer's security video from their "Ring" service and based on their treatment of warehouse workers are unsurprisingly in support of the return of slavery. Lastly please remember that these mental members and site employees have little restraint or any morality and are all Americans. Ominous music ends. 🙂

May we all find Good Reading! 🤗

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I wish you a glorious morning, a productive afternoon, a pleasant evening, a wonderful night and may we all continue learning.

Censorship is a crime, Self-censorship is a tragedy.
Socrates

[Tony Hisgett · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got to chapter four and was ready to give up. Each new chapter is in a new location and a new set of characters, I tried to make some connection with a main character, but it seemed pointless as the author just moved onto to somebody new.
I kept going for a while, but I’m afraid I couldn’t get into the story and I just became more and more bored and irritated.

[Richard Prendergast · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like Richard Fox as an author. I read his Ember war series before I pick this up. That series was fantastic this one started off all over the place. It was hard to get through at first. I had to reread a few pages to keep track of the characters. About a half way through or so it settled down and became easier to follow. I do not know if it was the writing settling down or me getting use to the jumping around. Either way the story is a really good story and seems to be getting better.

I recommend reading this if you like books like the “Honor Harrington Series”. I am looking forward to reading Book 2.

[Fernando Correia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun space opera

It's a fun read and an interesting space opera. The first four chapters read like four unrelated short stories, none of them really great. It picks up pace later but characters are somewhat stereotypical. One in particular is an attempt at comic relief that always seems out of tone and out of place. Overall an interesting story but I felt that it left something to be desired. It doesn't help that the second book doesn't add much to the story and the series ended on a cliffhanger - unless a third book comes out in the future.

[Angela Hughes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Into the wee hours...

Evil, powerful, purple human-like aliens who want to own it all go toe-to-toe against Albion, a shining world who hasn't known war for a century plus. Add in a three year old sweet Prince. Good stuff...

[Alex Shrugged · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is actually a good start to a series "The Exiled Fleet".

Also, it reminds me of The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell, starting with the book "Dauntless".

The Story: The Daegon have invaded Albion in a big way. The invasion is so overwhelming that only a few key people get away, including the child-prince of Albion, a small guard force and a commodore that is a commoner who lifted himself up to his position my sheer competence, but is unloved by everyone else at his level. The Daegon's objective is to make everyone into thralls, and destroy any rallying point that a rebellion might latch onto... oh... such as a stray prince. The objective for the last of the Albion fleet is to get into contact with ships that were not in system at the time and organize themselves to retake Albion... eventually. But first they must save their one hope of restoring the monarchy... a little boy who does not yet realize how important he is.

I hope I didn't give away too much. It really is an exciting story. It is pretty violent though. Just FYI.

The ending leads to a sequel fairly predictably, but the ending to this book is reasonably satisfying.

I'd read this book again and maybe the series.

[ThomyZ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interestingly, I started this because it was suggested to me based on my longtime love for the Honor Harrington series. However, I found myself much more invested in the ground combat and espionage elements than in the space combat. The most intriguing element to me was the concept of the Genevan gestalt battle suits.

The book overall is a pageturner in every sense of the word, the plot is engaging and easy to follow. In the beginning, the different plot threads and main characters are very spread out, but by the end they all come together nicely. There's quite a lot of somewhat clumsy exposition and unnatural dialogue, but it gets better once the world and the characters are established.

[Justin · Rating 4 out of 5]

A genuine, intense read

Overall, I really enjoyed this book. Characters were easy to follow, storyline was straightforward and the dialog believable. Sometimes space based military novels can get bogged down in either the science, military terms of both. Mr. Fox makes a believable futuristic sci-fi novel, and I haven't had too many successes there.

The only real criticism I have are the action sequences seemed rushed. I can't put my finger on exactly what was left out, but for some reason combat parts left me wanting more. A minor complaint, if any.

Looking forward to the next book in the series!

[Janet S · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book because it was time for me to read a good syfy space opera. I know this is the first of a series so I can put up with a disjointed start. After all, I'm reading the book and couldn't write a full book myself. Every chapter introduced new characters and locations. I was disappointed that some got killed off after I started to be invested in their story. But ok, it is the start of a series. The story ramps up and gets moving about half way through. The end leaves teasers for what might come. But this book seemed too short for what it is. I'm not sure I want to get the next book. The episodes seem too short to get very far into the next part of the story.

[James Platt · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not gonna lie the first half of this book outright sucks. It’s disjointed and it gives you almost nothing to ground yourself in the story. Characters are empty and some much needed world building is non existent. The second half is actually really good. It finally turns into a coherent cohesive story with good action, character growth, and the world starts to make sense. I’m holding off on the second volume, despite the cliffhanger ending, because I’m pretty sour on my experience with the first half of this story. I only barely began to care about any character at all and then the book was done. I’m not gung-ho on jumping into a series that has a terrible first volume.

[Mick Bird · Rating 4 out of 5]

A new area of space.

We are introduced to a new area of space, but the name will be very familiar with some. Mr Fox, has started off what I am sure will be a interesting series of books. The planet of Albion has been attacked and it's fleet in orbit wiped out. Only the 11 fleet remains, but for how long. The young Prince has been able to escape, can the 11 fleet get help from the other plant's before it is too late.

[Patkós Csaba · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book seems promising, but not spectacular. Especially the first part of the book is very hard to follow. A lot of new characters introduced in parallel stories/places, the scenes are switching too much. After about the its half, the threads converge, but there is too much introduction for my taste. I am continuing with the second book, so far that seems more linear and promises interesting stories. Let's see how the series turns out to be.

[Evil Secret Ninja · Rating 4 out of 5]

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A quick science fiction read. This is a battle that is the beginning of the end. One world has been beaten and more are to come. There are so many questions that need to be answered. The augmented humans who have attacked. Who are they and where do they come from? They came and wiped out a planet and are moving on. Looking forward to the next book.

[S. Nelson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was okay but not compelling enough for me to add the next in the series to my reading list. It takes you through a story and tries to make you want to continue reading. In my opinion, it had interesting characters but ended abruptly. It wasn't really and end of the story/book, more like it just ended. I prefer series that have a story that ends at the completion of the book but has a "hook" that makes you want to read the next in the series. This book did not do that in my opinion.

[Beach Bum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok, has possibilities

The series has potential. Hopefully this being the first it is setting the scene and the rest will build up quickly from that.
Has similar concepts to many series by other authors. Cyborgs, cadre of sworn super soldiers and the old "last aire to the throne to protect"
A few of the characters show potential already. I'm hoping for more of them, than the potential big space battles that I think this may lead to

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good book. Parts of it goet too bogged down in the details, but for the most part, the book was a good one, and I fully intend to continue reading the series, I'm a big scifi fan, and this book has all the right stuff, aliens, space travel, battles, betrayal, and more. If you're a scifi fan, you should enjoy this one.

[Larry B Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Space Opera

If you like great space opera and fast-paced action you will love this book. From the first page the adventure grows and grabs you as you read more and more. I really liked the characters and loved the storyline. I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it.

[Jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is fun, escapism sci-fi. The idea that even if humanity expanded to the stars we would still be divided culturally and ethnically. Some of the characters are delightful (e.g. Commodore Gage and Bertie). The tech including cybernetics is fascinating. The bad guys are disturbing.

It is a Hornblower knock off in space.

[Ethan · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was good, but not incredible. The last half of it managed to catch my interest enough that I’m going to give the next book in the series a try and see if it gets better. All in all, I’m glad I read it because it’s different than what I usually read and I’m excited to see where the story goes from the cliffhanger ending!

[Jerri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this as an Amazon Prime Free Kindle book. It is an interesting start to a series but could be helped with a good editor. And even books in series need to come to a satisfying conclusion for that part of the series.

[Jarryd Kalideen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read til book 4 now and this is a review on the series itself, no spoilers. If you're read Richard Fox's other books then you know the sort of story to expect. Admittedly this starts off a bit slow and disconnected, the different cultures of the space nations can be amusing as well. However, the story comes in thick and fast afterwards and is almost real-time (the next book starts off just after the end of the previous). If you read enough sci-fi you'll see that this overall story isn't too original, however it is done differently this time. Even at book 4 there are still plenty of mystery left to uncover. The world building is done well and the characters are likeable. You only do not connect with the enemy as til this time you still don't fully fathom their reasoning.

[Bryant Wall · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was skeptical at first, however, after giving the story a try, I became deeply entrenched in the story.

The characters are believable and compliment the intriguing storyline very well.

if you're a fan of science fiction and looking for your next read, check this book out.

[Steve Jennings · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started off nicely, however, there were just way too many characters to keep up with... also the way some characters were introduced, felt like they would play a bigger part in the plot and sort of became bit players. Just too many moving parts..

[Bob · Rating 1 out of 5]

At several points in this book I just had to laugh at the superficiality and lack of creativity. An example: a space shuttle with Daimler engines built on the planet Reich. Another: a "forbidden planet" populated by Chinese. Dumb!

[Matt · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good start to the series, I'm interested in the next book now that the prologue is done.

[Patrick Marrin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great Sci Fi. Plan to read whole series.

[Shazzam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read.

Fast paced storytelling. Characters are enjoyable. I would recommend this book to those seeking a story with space battles and suspense. Intriguing storyline.