The Hercules Text by Jack McDevitt In the near future, NASA scientists pick up a signal from space that turns out to be a coded message (“The Hercules Text”) from an alien species. It originated a million years ago, so it’s unlikely that the aliens still exist, and even if they do they’re very far […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3 | Jack McDevitt | Audio, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Coming Home by Jack McDevitt In the distant future, humanity will remember the period when NASA landed on the moon and explored our galaxy as the Golden Age. The people of the future won’t remember much else from our century because of the Internet crash that caused so much literature and scientific knowledge to be […]
Read MoreRyan Skardal´s rating: 2.5 | Jack McDevitt | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt Fort Moxie lent itself to timelessness. There were no major renovation projects, no vast cultural shifts imposed by changing technology, no influxes of strangers, no social engineering. The town and the broad prairie in which it rested were caught in a kind of time warp. A farmer works his land […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 3.5 | Jack McDevitt | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Thunderbird by Jack McDevitt When we last left Jack McDevitt’s North Dakota in 1996’s Ancient Shores, the U.S. Government had failed miserably and embarrassingly to wrest control of an alien stargate from the Spirit Lake Sioux, rightful owners of the land on which the alien artifact was found. Thunderbird, a sequel to Ancient Shores, picks […]
Read MoreJason Golomb´s rating: 3.5 | Jack McDevitt | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
A Voice in the Night by Jack McDevitt Jack McDevitt is one of the numerous authors whose work I know because my dad said, “Hey, read this!” In McDevitt’s case, the “this” was The Engines of God. Having thus been introduced to recurring protagonist Priscilla Hutchins, I read several others of McDevitt’s novels and I’ve […]
Read MoreNathan Okerlund´s rating: 3.5 | Jack McDevitt | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
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