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Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
567 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jack McDevitt's passion for astronomy was recognized in 2008 when the International Astronomical Union put his name on an asteroid. NASA has given him an award for "keeping the science in science fiction." Stephen King described Jack as the "natural heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke." Life is full of mysteries. Or at least, Jack's fiction is. His earliest story, "The Emerson Effect," shows how a hundred-year-old package that had been lost...
2) Octavia gone
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 8
Language
English
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"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...
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English
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Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions. Twenty-third century interstellar archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on several planets, searching for clues. But their time is running out. Earth is quickly becoming unlivable, and colonizers want to begin renovating these abandoned worlds for human habitation....
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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English
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When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time-or worse-Shel enlists Dave Dryden, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission.Their journey through history takes them from the Enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through the American Wild West to the civil rights upheavals of the twentieth century. Along the way, they encounter...
6) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 18 cm
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...
7) Echo
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
Language
English
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Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of...
9) Seeker
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After the disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict finds a cup that appears to be from one of the colony's ships, and, in attempting to establish its provenance, follows a trail that leads to the ship.
10) A talent for war
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 17 cm
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.
11) Deepsix
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Series
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English
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In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a...
12) Ancient Shores
Author
Series
Ancient shores volume 1
Language
English
Description
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great...
13) Polaris
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
14) Moonfall
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.
Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse.
But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new...
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 9
Language
English
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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.
16) Coming home
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Language
English
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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.
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English
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A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy
ISSUE 27: July 2017
Mike Resnick, Editor
Taylor Morris, Copyeditor
Shahid Mahmud, Publisher
Stories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevitt
Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford
Recommended...
18) Infinity Beach
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Language
English
Description
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. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the...
19) Eternity Road
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English
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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry 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.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Two science fiction masters—Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick—team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the hidden history of the United States space program…
“Houston, we have a problem…”
Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA’s public affairs director. Proud...
“Houston, we have a problem…”
Formerly a cynical, ambitious PR man, Jerry Culpepper finally found a client he could believe in when he was hired as NASA’s public affairs director. Proud...
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