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Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt
Subterranean Press, 2009
590 pages
Dust Jacket Illustration: Lee Moyer
Dust Jacket Design: Desert Isle Design, LLC
From the dust jacket:
Jack McDevitt loves a good mystery. And he enjoys baffling his readers with enigmas like why, after so many years of listening with no results, would a SETI director hear an artificial signal and keep it quiet? Why might and astronomer at a space station, facing imminent death from a solar radiation blast, send off a frantic message that he had discovered a Clyde Tombaugh Special? Tombaugh, of course, was the discoverer of Pluto.
What really happened to Christopher Sim, the George Washington of the war against the Ashiyyur? Why did a beloved artist at the top of his profession, with everything to live for, kill himself? Why did a brilliant young biologist who discovered how life got started on Earth, neglect to tell anyone?
And there are of course other anomolies to be encountered in McDevitt's work: A computer threatens the literary world, while a time traveler worries the churches. One artificial intelligence runs for president, and another claims to be a Catholic and demands access to the sacraments. Two friends discover that whenever they get together, shuttles crash, wars break out, or tidal waves hammer a coastline.
A researcher watches endless fighting on another world and finally rebels against the Acadamy's hands-off doctrine. Meantime, a crewman stranded light-years from Earth, entertains himself by intercepting radio broadcasts from home, originally transmitted during World War II.
Among other questions these tales will answer: What might happen when people in a research lab literally try to play God? Why don't you ever, ever, want to turn out the lights at Bolton's Tower in the Dakotas? Why someone might want to blow up a star? And why it would be a really good idea if Hatch kept his hands off the mallet? These and twenty-three other cosmic rides, await the reader.
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Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 1998
The Best Way to Mars
The Stealth of Future War
Stories by Jack McDevitt, Barry B. Longyear, Craig DeLancy, Eric Brown
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"Defend your opinion only if it can be shown to be true, not because it is your opinion."
— Jack McDevitt (1935- ) Omega, chapter 33 (2003)
Image: [Whatever discomfort you might feel is miniscule compared to the anxiety transgender people feel every time they have to use a public restroom] Artist is unknown (cira 2013). If anyone has any information about them, please contact me, and I will give proper credit
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2012 Georgia Literary Festival on Jekyll Island, Georgia.
© 2012 Mike McCall / Mike McCall Photography
Negustorul de antichitati Alex Benedict intra in posesia unei cesti din ceramica, ce pare a proveni de pe nava Exploratorul, disparuta in mileniul al treilea, cand margolienii au parasit Pamantul, de fapt au fugit fara sa spuna nimanui unde se duc, pentru a fi la adapost de teocratia teriana, locul in care divinitatea iti impunea sa te supui vointei presedintelui, pentru a nu te face vinovat de infractiune grava impotriva Atotputernicului.
Margolienii au plecat crezand ca pot fonda, departe de Pamant, o societate noua, utopica, un loc de trai ideal, care sa ofere libertate si siguranta. Insa nimeni nu a mai auzit de ei, nimeni nu a aflat vreodata daca au reusit sau nu ceea ce isi propusesera.
Dar iata ca apare o pista pentru a elucida misterul acestei colonii pierdute, iar Alex si asistentul sau Chase, pasionati de noi civilizatii si situri arheologice, pleaca in explorare.
Nebula Award Reception, May 18, 2012, Novel Category Award Nominees: (left to right) Jack McDevitt, Genevieve Valentine and Jo Walton.
2015 Robert A. Heinlein Award winner Jack McDevitt (left) receives his honors from Heinlein Committee Chair Michael Flynn.
2015 Robert A. Heinlein Award winner Jack McDevitt (left) receives his honors from Heinlein Committee Chair Michael Flynn.
Nebula Award Reception, May 18, 2012, Novel Category Award Nominees: (left to right) Jack McDevitt, Genevieve Valentine and Jo Walton.