"The Devil's Eye" by Jack McDevitt... another Alex Benedict novel that is really a Chase Kolpath novel... Alex's beautiful assistant. Good story. I'd read it again.Story: After a vacation on Earth, touring with telepathic aliens, Alex receives a desperate message from a famous horror novelist Vic...
I didn't give the book a rating as I realized that I got several pages into the book that I already read this story. Back in 2004 Jack McDevitt wrote a novella in a compilation of the "Worlds Best Time Travel stories" that was this exact story. The first difference I could see is that the novel...
This was a fun time travel book. Shel's father, a physicist, mysteriously disappears and a strange "qpod" device falls into his hands. But instead of destroying the device as instructed by his father's letter, Shel and his friend Dave set out to look for the missing scientist, by traveling in t...
So the moon landings involved a hoax, but not the one you are thinking of. This mystery story of c. 2020 re-visits the Apollo Missions--just what the heck happened in 1969, anyway? Did Tricky Dick pull another one on us? Aside from the main plot, which I am not revealing, what happens if we do...
‘We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it’s believed, until Dr. Kimber...
Jack McDevitt is really, really good at two things: first, creating really interesting, intricate scenarios (often involving lost civilizations) and two, scripting tight, compelling plots that function as slow reveals of those scenarios. The more of his novels I read (I'm up to three or four, I t...
This book was, in a word, chaotic. And in a second word, preachy. It's actually very difficult to determine which of those two descriptors was more upsetting, as I went through the book. Around three-quarters of the way through, I had had more than enough, and I only finished reading to give the ...
"Chindi" is the third novel in the Priscilla Hutchins series. The archaeological mysteries continue."Hutch", as her friends call her, is fed up with her career as pilot. She gets all of the blame when things go wrong and none of the credit when things go right. She's been asked by her employer, t...
The archaeological mysteries which were prevalent in the first three books are gone, replaced by a xeno-sociology/rescue mission. A new, thriving medieval civilization has been discovered on the world of Lookout. There's just one catch: an Omega cloud, those mysterious galactic phenomena that att...
This was a very enjoyable, even exciting, sci fi mystery featuring Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath. Alex is a dealer of valuable antiques and Chase is his pilot who helps out around his business. The book takes place some 12 years from when the events in the previous book took place.Sixty years a...
This is the second book in The Academy series and I loved it. Hutch, the space ship pilot from the first novel, is back, a number of years later, still piloting ships around for the Academy.A back plot. An earth-like planet is found and a group of scientists found to explore it, but they're nearl...