The eighth entry in the mediumfuture academy series starhawk, 20, etc. Jack mcdevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, english teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, and is now a fulltime writer of novels, including the alex benedict series coming home, firebird and the priscilla hutchins series. He is the author of the alex benedict novels and the priscilla hutchins novels. Jack mcdevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, english teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer who is now a fulltime writer. This list includes novels not marketed as sf but still considered to be substantially science fiction in content by some critics, such as nineteen eighty four. Most of his novels are usually on the theme of xenoarcheology, archeology, and attempts at making contact with aliens.
Slow lightning book by jack mcdevitt half price books. A masterpiece on many levels, it transcends the boundaries of a gripping murder mystery to become a moving account of the battle between love and hate, faith and despair, compassion and cruelty, good and evil. Records indicate that they succeeded, as the seeker made several voyages, but they kept the location of their colony world a secret. Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, citation needed the main character of the engines of god, pilot priscilla hutchins, has since appeared in seven more books, deepsix 2001, chindi 2002, omega 2003, odyssey 2006, cauldron 2007, starhawk 20, and the long sunset 2018. Russ mcdevitt was born in ireland, and as a young man toured australia in a boxing and wrestling troupe for 3 years. Jack mcdevitt is one of the top hard science fiction authors of the past 30 years. Jack mcdevitt is a renowned american science fiction novelist, who has written numerous novels over the years. See the complete the academy series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. Decades ago, survey ship hunter suffered engine problems and returned early to planet greenway. Long sunset, the by jack mcdevitt signed first edition book see all titles by jack mcdevitt. Buy slow lightning by jack mcdevitt online at alibris. Jack mcdevitt, master storyteller, writes scifi mysteries ranging from space opera to time travel. This is another amazing novel by jack mcdevitt, but do not be fooled by the title as was i.
Jack mcdevitt delivers worthy sequel with thunderbird. Order of jack mcdevitt books jack mcdevitt is an american science fiction author best known as the author and creator of the alex benedict series and the priscilla hutchins series. Fyodor dostoyevsky is a titanic figure among the worlds great authors, and the brothers karamazov is often hailed as his finest novel. Buy slow lightning by jack mcdevitt from waterstones today. Clarke award finalist and his novel, ancient shores, was a nebula finalist in 1998.
In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. I generally like jack mcdevitts books, but this one spent a great deal of time on politics, especially at the beginning. I just finished thunderbird and have no idea how he plans to follow this up. Jack mcdevitt s novels and short stories have been nominated and won many awards over the years. The cassandra project falls far below expectations of a mcdevitt book. Jack mcdevitt books for sale use the search engine right, type mcdevitt in the author section. Though i discovered jack mcdevitt after he was already a wellestablished scifi writer, ive read a good share of his books nowmost notably the series featuring priscilla hutchins engines of god, deepsix, chindi, etc. From nebula award winner jack mcdevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular the academy seriespriscilla 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. Jack mcdevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, english teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer.
Dick award for his first novel, the hercules text, and the first upc prize for his novella, ships in the night. It comprises of a total of 7 books, which were released between the years 1989 and 2014. Jack mcdevitt body of works oeuvre australia unwrapped. He is also the coauthor of the cassandra project with mike resnick. I liked the original book, which had the title infinity beach and was published in the us.
By retracing the route of these longforgotten space explorers, they begin to get an idea of where the seeker was found. He has won multiple awards including the international upc science fiction award for ships in the night, a nebula for seeker, a campbell award for omega, and the robert heinlein lifetime achievement award. With insight, and some luck vague, alex and chase discover who brought this cup back. He has been in the running or won the nebula award over for at least twelve times. Priscilla hutchins job is on the line now that the academy may be.
It includes modern novels, as well as novels written before the term science fiction was in common use. Jacks novel seeker won a nebula award, and he is a. My only problem with jacks writing is about once every 5 years i feel like i need to reread engines of god. Slow lightning has 2 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace.
Author jack mcdevitt bio and signed books vj books. Unless youre a collector of his books, as am i, buy the. Mcdevitt, jack pointer infinity beach aliencontactmurder mystery from the everreliable author of moonfall 1998, etc. Dick award, his novella ships in the night won the upc international prize, while he was a finalist for the arthur c. The writing is stilted, the story line makes you hope something worth reading is on the next page, and when there is the same as before, well, it is dissappointing, to say the least. To purchase autographed copies of jack mcdevitts books. Your order is now being processed and we have sent a.
Explore books by jack mcdevitt with our selection at. Slow lightning by jack mcdevitt and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. He has been nominated for a nebula award on sixteen occasions, winning in 2006 for his novel seeker. This book, from the uk, was published again under the name slow lightning so i was disappointed to have purchased this, expecting a new mcdevitt book. After purcahsing the book i discovered that this is just the british version of mcdevitts infinity beach. Jack mcdevitt is currently considered a single author. Mcdevitt was nominated for numerous nebula awards and won the award in 2006 for seeker. I have skipped 4 or 5 pages at a time, only to find the same tediousness of the last one.
If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Jack mcdevitt books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography. Weve been looking for over 1,000 years, and there is simply nothing out there. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. This is a list of sciencefiction novels, novel series, and collections of linked short stories. The alex benedict series is a series of mystery and science fiction books written one of the bestselling authors named jack mcdevitt. All the novels of this series feature the main character in the form of alex benedict. Jack mcdevitt born 1935 is an awardwinning american science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. He is the author of the alex benedict novels including firebird and the priscilla hutch hutchins series of books sometimes referred to as the academy series. He has over 20 novels available in print, ebook and audio.
A list of all jack mcdevitts series in reading order. He later joined the canadian forces as a military policeman, serving with the nato brigade in europe. Jack mcdevitt born 1935 is a former english teacher, naval officer, philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. Slow lightning by jack mcdevitt 2000 0904 jack mcdevitt on. Hundreds of years hence, humans have colonized remote planets, but no alien lifeforms have ever been encountered. His two most popular series are the priscilla hutchins and the alex benedict series.
Enthusiasm for space exploration is, however, waning, leaving a now effectively immortal hutch faced with the dull. Mcdevitt does a great job, i think, at illustrating the grandeur, adventure and danger of space travel. The universe is a magnificent, but sterile, wilderness and it all belongs to us. Were excited to share the cover for the long sunset, the 8th book in jack mcdevitts academy series.
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