Jack Levin, Author, Jack McDevitt, Author Da Capo Press $23.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-306-44471-5
Levin, a professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern University in Boston, and McDevitt, the associate director of the Center for Applied Resarch at the same school, report that hate crimes against women, ethnic and racial minorities and...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $22.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-441-00938-1
In this sequel to last year's well-received Deepsix, McDevitt tells a curiously old-fashioned tale of interstellar adventure. Reminiscent of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, the story sends veteran space pilot Priscilla "Hutch"
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Jack McDevitt, Author Ace Books $24.95 (410p) ISBN 978-0-441-01433-0
Set in the 23rd century, this straightforward adventure from Nebula-finalist McDevitt (Omega) explores the immorality of big business and the short-sightedness of the American government in minimizing support for space travel. These destructive...
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Jack McDevitt, Author HarperPrism $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-105208-8
Nearly 800 years have passed since the plague eradicated civilization in the 21st century. Primitive city-states are surrounded by ruins of the ""Roadmakers,"" whose engineering secrets died with them. Part of the trick and charm of McDevitt's (Etern
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Jack McDevitt, Author HarperPrism $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-105207-1
Early in the next century, outside a North Dakota town, farmer Tom Lasker digs up a boat on his land. Not only is the vessel crafted from an unknown element, but Lasker's farm is on land that has been dry for 10,000 years. A search for further...
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Jack McDevitt, Author Eos $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-105123-4
HA thousand years in the future, on the terraformed planet Greenaway, humanity has everything to make itself comfortable and complacent--longevity, leisure and luxury are all readily available. But one question remains: Is humanity alone in the...
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Jack McDevitt, Author Eos $24 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-105036-7
Racing neck and neck with doomsday, this breathless near-future thriller pits young, single and politically hopeful U.S. V.P. Charlie Haskell and a gigantic international cast of heroic helpers against an interstellar comet that blows the Moon to...
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Jack McDevitt, Ace, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-01924-3
Fans of antiquities dealer Alex Benedict will find their expectations fully met by his fifth outing (after 2008's The Devil's Eye). Benedict innocently arranges the purchase of a curious but not obviously significant stone tablet with an unreadable...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $24.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-441-01763-8
McDevitt (Seeker
) avoids flashy action scenes in this tale of two friends using a time machine to take a grand tour of history. When Adrian “Shel” Shelbourne's physicist father disappears and leaves behind a time-travel device,...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Subterranean $38 (590p) ISBN 978-1-59606-195-8
This career-spanning collection of 38 stories offers perspectives on various aspects of history, whether actual (“Time Travellers Never Die”), alternate (“The Tomb”) or conjectured (“Ignition”). Character actions...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $24.95 (359p) ISBN 978-0-441-01635-8
McDevitt fills the fourth far-future Alex Benedict adventure (after 2005's Nebula-winning Seeker
) with historical details and thrilling stunts as well as sharp political allegory. When famous horror writer Vicki Greene leaves antiquities...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $24.95 (373p) ISBN 978-0-441-01525-2
Space opera specialist McDevitt shoehorns two traditional SF plots into his latest Academy novel (after 2006's Odyssey
), doing both stories a disservice. Youthful physicist Jon Silvestri persuades the philanthropic Prometheus Foundation to...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $24.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-441-01329-6
Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-space-colony theme. In 2688, interstellar transports Seeker
and Bremerhaven
left a theocratic Orwellian Earth to found a dictator-free society, Margolia—and vanished. Nine...
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-441-01202-2
This SF mystery's smooth and exciting surface makes it difficult to appreciate how exceptionally good it is at combining action and ideas. After a string of well-developed space operas, McDevitt returns to the lead characters of his second novel,
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Jack McDevitt, Author . Ace $23.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-441-01046-2
Having mastered the big, sprawling adventure stories called space opera in books like Chindi
, McDevitt extends the form in this feel-good SF novel that earns its hopeful conclusion. Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchens, heroine of several of McDevitt&
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Those who like their science hard and their alien adventures bloody will enjoy this latest from Philip K. Dick Award runner-up McDevitt (The Hercules Text). In the 23rd century Deepsix is a planet in deep trouble. In about three weeks a Jovian-sized
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Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick. Ace, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-937008-71-0
In 2019, 50 years after Apollo 11, Jerry Culpepper, a NASA press agent, is caught between his hopes for a better future for the space program and puzzling clues that suggest Neil Armstrong was the fifth man to walk on the Moon. Adding in a...
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Jack McDevitt. Saga, $27.99 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9793-0
Despite its placement in the 23rd century, this long but accessible and optimistic eighth volume in McDevitt’s series featuring interstellar pilot Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins (after 2013’s Starhawk) recounts a very timely victory for scientific...
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Jack McDevitt. Subterranean, $40 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59606-880-3
Fans of classic science fiction will enjoy this collection of 24 short stories that cover familiar genre themes such as the search for alien life and the implications of time travel in plain but effective prose. McDevitt, best known for his Alex...
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Jack McDevitt. Saga, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9797-8
A slow-to-develop plot and a dated vision of the far future undermine McDevitt’s disappointing eighth novel featuring antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and pilot Chase Kolpath (after 2014’s Coming Home), set several thousand years in the future. Alex’
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Jack McDevitt. Saga, $28.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-66800-429-6
Antiquarian Alex Benedict and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, investigate a vanished alien village in the dragging ninth installment to Nebula Award winner McDevitt’s Alex Benedict series (after Octavia Gone). Humanity’s ongoing search for intelligent
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Jack McDevitt. Subterranean, $40 (112p) ISBN 978-1-64524-188-1
Set on Sioux territory in North Dakota more than a decade into the future, this underbaked novella from Nebula Award winner McDevitt (Village in the Sky) sends a ho-hum cast of 40-somethings on a flimsy adventure to “other worlds” in search of...
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