Jack McDevitt
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
2) Coming home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
On an Indian reservation in North Dakota, a shooting war breaks out over a space-travel machine. Left by visiting aliens thousands of years ago, it allows men to go the alien world. Washington wants to destroy it, the Indians to use it to emigrate.
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
When Cal, a steadfast and handsome farmer from small-town Utah, finally gets a chance with Kate, the enigmatic girl of his dreams, and their instant attraction quickly blossoms into a meaningful romance. But when Cal learns he has been drafted to serve in World War II their time together is cut far too short. Catapulted into the suffocating jungles of the Pacific in the campaign to liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation, Cal encounters...
5) Polaris
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Sixty years after the disappearance of the passengers and crew of the luxury space yacht Polaris, found empty and adrift in space, Alex Benedict sets out to uncover the truth about the Polaris and to reveal the fate of its passengers.
6) Chindi
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
On a routine survey mission studying a neutron star, an Academy starship receives a transmission in an unknown language. Before leaving the area, the starship launches a series of satellites to find the signal and perhaps discover its origins. Five years later, a satellite finally encounters the signal which is believed to be of extraterrestrial origin by the Contact Society, a wealthy group of enthusiasts who fund research into the existence of alien...
7) Deepsix
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Sent to explore that galactic rarity, a life-supporting planet, before it is swallowed by a rogue gas giant planet, a scientific team finds an inexplicable combination of a primitive society and the remnants of incredibly-advanced technology before a planet-quake destroys their only means of escape.
8) Octavia gone
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 8
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead--just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
10) Seeker
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Alex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious antiquities dealers from Jack McDevitt's A Talent for War (1989) and, more recently, Polaris -- are back in Seeker, a story in which the two antiquarians search for a legendary lost colony that is both a science fiction thriller and a remarkably complex mystery. More than 9,000 years after an interstellar transport named Seeker left an overcrowded and politically repressive Earth...
11) Odyssey
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon realizes that their mission has become dangerous when they discover the truth about the moonriders.
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins novels volume 8
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
13) Omega
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"Somewhat sentient, the omega clouds obliterate life on every planet in their path. Now one of them is predicted to reach Earth in about 900 years. But between Earth and the cloud, lies the home world of the Korbikkan race. They are humanoid sentients and one of three sentient races known to humanity. Now, mankind must decide whether to marshall the science resources needed and to bring to bear the weaponry needed to save another race without putting...
14) A talent for war
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Forty-one years ago, the renowned physicist Dr. Christopher Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Now his widow has died and Alex Benedict has been asked to handle the auction of the physicist's artifacts--leading the public to once again speculate on the mystery surrounding Robin's disappearance. Did he finally find the door...
16) Echo
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
18) Cauldron
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In 2255, veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fundraising efforts for an organization devoted to deep-space exploration. Soon, Hutch finds herself on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her.
19) Eternity Road
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The Roadmakers left only ruins behind- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs, and jewlery are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend too, a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
20) Standard candles
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
Jack McDevitt was a fixture for years inside the pages of the top science-fiction magazines. This edition brings together for the first time sixteen of McDevitts greatest tales. It is here where the full extent of McDevitts talent is at last on display. In Standard Candles, wonders abound, with the lucidity and grace that have become McDevitts trademarks.