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Ancient Shoresby Jack McDevittISBN 0006482287 (0-00-648228-7)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Shores'Book summary:Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker's wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there's the Roundhouse, apparently a doorway to another world, sitting squarely on Sioux reservation land. How did they get there, and what do they signify for the people embroiled in their discovery? This is sci-fi on a grand scale by the author of The Engines of God. [via]
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Deepsixby Jack McDevittISBN 0007108796 (0-00-710879-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deepsix'Book summary:Deepsix is concerned with the motivating force that drives all scientists--the quest for truth, for expanding the limits of human knowledge. How much are we willing to risk for that moment of discovery, of knowing what no other soul yet knows? Our time? Our reputations? Our careers? Our lives?
The premise is this: just weeks before the planet Deepsix will be destroyed by a collision with a gas giant, ruins are detected on its surface, suggesting the presence of civilization. The Academy diverts scientists from the nearest spaceship to go down and explore, and they are joined by their century's Ellsworth Toohey: a misogynistic, sanctimonious gadfly who has never before been off of Earth's surface. The party's landers are destroyed in an earthquake induced by the approaching gas giant, so now they must find a way to get off of Deepsix before it is destroyed by the collision. Needless to say, their excavations are placed on the back burner.
The physics describing the space travel and the archeology used to reconstruct the lost culture of Deepsix are interesting and explained well. There is plenty of action and suspense--will the party survive? And the evolving characters and group dynamics are more complex than those usually found in science fiction books, making Deepsix a worthwhile read. --Diana Gitig [via]
The Engines of Godby Jack McDevittISBN 0006482279 (0-00-648227-9)
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Eternity Roadby Jack McDevittISBN 0006483089 (0-00-648308-9)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eternity Road'Book summary:Eternity Road is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, but when an expedition from Memphis sets out to find it, only one person returns. The lone, dishonored survivor eventually kills himself, but his son is determined to try again ... [via]
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Infinity Beachby Jack McDevittISBN 0061020052 (0-06-102005-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Infinity Beach'Book summary:What happens when first contact goes horribly wrong? When that initial meeting between two sentient species leads to utter confusion and misunderstanding, murder and hijacking, and a tight-lipped coverup for years afterward? Jack McDevitt sets this situation up in Infinity Beach, describing humanity at the end of the third millennium as a solitary race, seemingly alone in the cosmos even after colonizing many worlds beyond Earth: "The universe has come to resemble a magnificent but sterile wilderness, an ocean which boasts no friendly coast, no sails, no sign that any have passed this way before." But a ship in search of life returned years earlier under suspicious circumstances, with two crew members missing, one presumed dead in an unexplained explosion, and the fourth retired into silence. Tales of apparitions, strange lights, and voices near the explosion site persist. No one's talking, but the scientist sister (and clone) of one of the missing shipmates starts asking questions and finds herself at the heart of a complex and frightening puzzle.
McDevitt, an accomplished storyteller and perennial Nebula runner-up, proves to have an excellent ear for such drama, telling a solid story that exudes mood and atmosphere while still staying tense enough to keep those pages turning. By turns a murder mystery, ghost story, and solid sci-fi thriller, Infinity Beach takes one of the genre's more prosaic schticks--first contact--and gives it a twist with style and skill: when you do make contact, what you find might scare you. --Paul Hughes [via]
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Moonfallby Jack McDevittISBN 0002247054 (0-00-224705-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moonfall'Book summary:Over the last few years, Jack McDevitt has quietly been producing an outstanding collection of science fiction novels. Earlier works such as The Engines of God and Ancient Shores had a thoughtful, archeological-exploration bent, but with Moonfall he takes off the gloves to create a splashy, near-future science fiction thriller with a big cast of characters and a do-or-die attitude. At the center of the story is Charlie Haskell, the U.S. vice president, who in 2024--an election year--has arrived at the American Moonbase to cut the ribbon and declare it operational. But there's a problem, and it's a doozy: a "sun-grazer" comet, with immense mass and speed, is on a collision course with the moon. Haskell, with an eye to his public image, puts himself at the bottom of the evacuation list. But time grows critically short, and soon more than his political future is in jeopardy--broken chunks of moon will begin exploding outwards. If they reach Earth, some of the chunks are big enough to cause an extinction event. McDevitt pays attention to his science while revving the action, and the stakes couldn't be higher: Haskell's choices will decide who lives and who dies--if anyone survives at all. --Blaise Selby [via]
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- Moonfall: ISBN 0061051128 (0-06-105112-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - Moonfall: ISBN 0006511708 (0-00-651170-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited - Moonfall: ISBN 0002246902 (0-00-224690-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Moonfall: ISBN 0061050369 (0-06-105036-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Moonfall: ISBN 0002247054 (0-00-224705-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Moonfall: ISBN 0061051128 (0-06-105112-8)
Slow Lightningby Jack McDevittISBN 0002247356 (0-00-224735-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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