Jack McDevitt
1) Coming home
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Alex Benedict novels volume 7
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English
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An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
2) Thunderbird
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Ancient shores volume 2
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English
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The Nebula Award–winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic.
A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly...
A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly...
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.
This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure…
Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s license.
Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority...
This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure…
Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot’s license.
Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority...
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English
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend, too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact...
5) Deepsix
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English
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A small team of scientists stranded on a planet littered with remnants of an intelligent society searches for a way to escape before it collides with a rogue planet
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Ancient shores volume 1
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English
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A North Dakota farmer digs up a huge sailboat that is an interdimensional transport to another world
7) Moonfall
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English
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In 2024, a colony established on the moon stands poised to launch the first manned mission to Mars when a comet is discovered heading straight for the Moon
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English
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 27: July 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevitt
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
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English
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The embers of War still glow as memories of strange skies over an alien landscape, light-years from home, bring back the sensations of battle; a time when personal sacrifice meant the difference between salvation for all, or total destruction.
Gathered here is a cross-section of stories from the first decade of the award-winning Defending The Future series. Written by the known and up-and-coming in the military science fiction genre, these stories...
11) Echo
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
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English
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After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas
12) The Long Sunset
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Series
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English
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From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy series-Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good. Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration...
13) Octavia Gone
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact-which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead-just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
In Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt's ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away-only for it to disappear without a trace.
Centuries after a war with the Mutes, the first aliens to be encountered by humankind, a startling new discovery in the far reaches of the Orion Nebula appears. On a planet with conditions favorable to life, explorer vessel...
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English
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The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the nationally bestselling author of Coming Home-now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword.
From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular . . . artificial. It can only be a code.
Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication....
16) Cauldron
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Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a young physicist comes up with an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, a retired star pilot embarks on a perilous mission into the far reaches of outer space to uncover the origins of the deadly Omega clouds
18) The devil's eye
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
From the most remote of human worlds, a planet outside the galaxy, an interstellar antiquities dealer receives a cryptic message from a celebrated writer asking for help, but when he arrives he finds she has been "mind swept," and he will have to uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval that someone is desperate to keep hidden
19) Infinity beach
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Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
With nine worlds colonized, humans have found no evidence of other life forms, but when a young woman begins to investigate the disappearence of her sister and clone, she discovers that other forms of life were brought back to Earth