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     Jack will be emcee at Con*Stellation XXVIII in Huntsville, AL September 18-20 at the Holiday Inn Express. (GOH will be David Weber.)

 

 About Jack....    

                                                                                                  1952

 

 

Photo by Maureen McDevitt

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                       ..is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver,

 customs officer, and motivational trainer.
 With the nominations of Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores,
“Time Travelers Never Die,"Moonfall,
“Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt),
“Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,”   Chindi, Omega, Polaris,

"Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker, Odyssey, and Cauldron,
                                          his work has been on the final Nebula ballot
                                   twelve of the last thirteen years.

His first novel, The Hercules Text,
was published in the celebrated Ace Specials series,
 and won the Philip K. Dick Special Award.
In 1991, he won the first $10,000 UPC International Prize
 for his novella “Ships in the Night.”
The Engines of God was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award,
and his novella “Time Travelers Never Die”
 was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula.
Omega received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award
for best SF novel, 2003.
McDevitt lives in Georgia with his wife Maureen,
where he plays chess, reads mysteries,
 and eats lunch regularly with his cronies.

 

 

 


Time Travelers Never Die

A new novel by Jack McDevitt will be out in November, 2009

 

 

 

 

        Website featured story:  Ships in the Night 

  • Fictionwise ebook: Cauldron
  • Fictionwise ebook: Odyssey
  • Fictionwise ebook: Seeker, Nebula Winner!
  • Excerpt from Seeker: Chapter 14
  • Fictionwise ebook: Chindi
  • Fictionwise ebook: Omega
  • Excerpt from Omega:  Chapter 1
  • Fictionwise ebook: Polaris
  • "Cryptic," in Gedanken Fictions, ed. Thomas A. Easton
  • Deepsix: Chapter 3