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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
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A tightly themed, well executed collection: Wastelands captures our apocalypse fears and fantasies equally well and sometimes even simultaneously.
Adams wisely chooses Stephen King's "The End of the Whole Mess" as an opener and moves into all manner of exciting territory from there. Wastelands is the expected mix of strong (and some avera... »
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A Talent For War
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I only recently started reading McDevitt, beginning with [[ASIN:0441002846 The Engines of God]]. I liked that book enough to go looking for another. Most of the reviews that I read suggested that A Talent for War was his best book, so that is what I bought.
I cannot speak as to whether it is his best book or not, but it is a pretty darned ... »
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The Engines of God
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The end lesson in this book is the thought that "straight lines do not happen in nature." It has had me pondering if later books would show spacecraft and architecture with curves and the like (thus explaining why you sometimes see absolutely nonsensical shapes on alien spacecraft in SF movies...). Anyway, it was a good book (not GREAT) that left a l... »
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Seeker
I'm a huge fan of Jack McDevitt and this is the book that started my interest. He weaves a sci-fi tale of the far future with a bit of Sherlock Holmes ty... »
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Cauldron
Cauldron (2007) is the sixth SF novel in the Hutch series, following [[ASIN:0441015409 Odyssey]]. In the previous volume, the Moonriders destroyed the Or... »
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Deepsix
Deepsix is concerned with the motivating force that drives all scientists--the quest for truth, for expanding the limits of human knowledge. How m... »
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Chindi
Most science fiction seeks to excite and gratify the reader's sense of wonder. Jack McDevitt's hard SF novel Chindi both satisfies and examines t... »
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Ancient Shores
Something very strange has turned up in Tom Lasker's wheat field: a ten-thousand-year-old sailboat made of an unknown substance. And then there's the Rou... »
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Eternity Road
Eternity Road is set 1,000 years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most o... »
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Omega
Omega is a nice round up for the series. Chindi and Engines of God were both very good, and Omega is no slouch. It follows the same course of the other tw... »
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