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Books by Jack Mcdevitt






Thunderbird
(English Edition)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Headline
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-4722-3433-9, ISBN: 1-4722-3433-2

"A startling and majestic epic from Jack McDevitt, the Nebula Award-winning author of the Alex Benedict and the Priscilla Hutchins novelsA working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered on a Sioux reservation. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden; (2) a strange maze of underground passageways; or (3) a spa ..."






Time Travelers Never Die(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2010 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01955-7, ISBN: 0-441-01955-2

"When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time—or worse—Shel enlists the aid of linguist Dave MacElroy to accompany him on the rescue mission.   Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil-right upheavals of the 20th century. Along th ..."






Polaris(Reprint)
(An Alex Benedict Novel)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Ace
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01253-4, ISBN: 0-441-01253-1

"Jack McDevitt brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War, thrusting him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense that will lead the prominent antiquities dealer to the truth about an abandoned space yacht called the Polaris. "






A Talent For War(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 2004 by Ace
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01217-6, ISBN: 0-441-01217-5

"Jack McDevitt. introduced a few guests, rambled on about old business, accepted the treasurer's report (we were showing a pretty good profit), and introduced a red-faced man who moved to invite an Ashiyyurean "speaker" from the Maracaibo Caucus. I whispered into my commlink and asked Jacob what the Maracaibo Caucus was. "It's composed of retired military officers," he said. "Both ours and Ashiyyurean, and dedicated to keeping the p ..."






The Engines of God
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 1995 by Ace
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-00284-9, ISBN: 0-441-00284-6

"The first Priscilla Hutchins novel from Jack McDevitt, hailed by Stephen King as “the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.” Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth, on the brink of disaster, they may hold the only key to s ..."






Echo(Reprint)
(An Alex Benedict Novel)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Ace
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-937007-00-3, ISBN: 1-937007-00-6

"Sunset Tuttle spent a lifetime looking for alien species. Twenty-five years after Tuttle's death, Alex Benedict discovers a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols, now in the possession of Tuttle's one- time lover Rachel Bannister. Benedict is determined to decipher its secret-one Bannister doesn't want revealed. Could it be that Tuttle's obsessive quest was successful?"






Deepsix(1st Edition)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 528 Pages, Published 2002 by Harper Voyager
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-102006-3, ISBN: 0-06-102006-0

"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 surf ..."






Eternity Road **Signed**(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Hardcover, 338 Pages, Published 1997 by Harper Prism
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-105208-8, ISBN: 0-06-105208-6

"A post-apocalyptic novel follows a small band of survivors--a scholar, a soldier, and ahealer--led by a young woman as they journey through the fantastic, ..."






Thunderbird(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2016 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-27920-5, ISBN: 0-425-27920-0

"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 star gate more than ten thousand years old has been discovered on a Sioux reservation in North Dakota. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, dubbed Eden; (2) a maze of underground passage ..."






Future Visions
Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
by Elizabeth Bear, Greg Bear, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Ann Leckie, Jack Mcdevitt, Seanan Mcguire, Robert J. Saywer
Hardcover, Published 2015 by Microsoft
ISBN-13: 978-1-338-04737-0, ISBN: 1-338-04737-X






Starhawk
(A Priscilla Hutchins Novel)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2013 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-425-26085-2, ISBN: 0-425-26085-2

" 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 is still learning how to manage long-r ..."






The Devil's Eye(Reprint)
(An Alex Benedict Novel)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2009 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01785-0, ISBN: 0-441-01785-1

"When interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict discovers that his new client, writer Vicki Greene, has had her memory wiped, his investigation takes him to a remote world that holds the key to a decades-old political conflict.Title: The Devil's EyeAuthor: McDevitt, JackPublisher: Berkley Pub GroupPublication Date: 2009/10/27Number of Pages: 374Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: bl2009029656"






Seeker
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 373 Pages, Published 2006 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01375-3, ISBN: 0-441-01375-9

"With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to investigate the provenance of the cup. Alex and Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker - strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger ..."






Odyssey
(Hutch)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2006 by Ace Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01433-0, ISBN: 0-441-01433-X

"Multiple Nebula Award-finalist Jack McDevitt returns to the world of Chindi and Omega-and humanity's struggle with its own existence. To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But the team soon discovers that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phe ..."






Omega(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2004 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01210-7, ISBN: 0-441-01210-8

"In the sequel to the critically acclaimed Chindi, the best military and scientific minds on Earth band together in a desperate attempt to preserve an alien society from the deadly force heading for its home planet. Reprint.Title: OmegaAuthor: McDevitt, JackPublisher: Berkley Pub GroupPublication Date: 2004/10/26Number of Pages: 493Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: bl2004114945"






Chindi(Reprint)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 511 Pages, Published 2003 by Ace
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-01102-5, ISBN: 0-441-01102-0

"Most science fiction seeks to excite and gratify the reader's sense of wonder. Jack McDevitt's hard SF novel Chindi both satisfies and examines this sense of wonder, which inspires not only SF readers and writers, but every explorer and scientist who seeks to understand the universe. In Chindi, humanity has expanded to the stars and found very few other intelligent races--all but one extinct, with the survivor none too impressiv ..."






Hate Crimes Revisited
America's War On Those Who Are Different
by Jack Levin, Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Basic Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-3922-1, ISBN: 0-8133-3922-7

"Two leading experts on hate crime reassess the threat of violence based on difference--whether in sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, or citizenship-- to help us better understand and ultimately prevent such acts from occuring in the future. Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who t ..."






Infinity Beach(1st Edition)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2000 by Harper Voyager
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-105123-4, ISBN: 0-06-105123-3

"We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of SETI searches and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, and the starships that knit them together.No life has been found. No intelligent aliens, no strange ecologies, no awesome civilizations. Not even an amoeba, a lichen, a germ. The Universe is as sterile as a laboratory that was used only once. Or so it seems, ..."






Ancient Shores(6th Edition)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1996 by Harper Voyager
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-105426-6, ISBN: 0-06-105426-7

"It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline ..."






A Talent for War(1st Edition)
by Jack Mcdevitt
Paperback, 310 Pages, Published 1995 by Ace
ISBN-13: 978-0-441-79553-6, ISBN: 0-441-79553-6

"Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of the alien galaxy to confront a truth far stranger than any fiction. Reissue."



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