Events and Publications
Upcoming:
Crossroads Writers' Conference
Oct. 1-2
Macon, GA
Topic: Raining on Mars
for information, contact Chris Horne:
thischrishorne@gmail.com
Northeast Georgia Writers
Wed., Oct 5th: 1:00-3:00 P.M.
Topic: How to Get Your Work Rejected
Peach State Bank 3rd Floor
325 Washington St.
Gainesville, GA
for information, contact staff at: www.negawriters.org
Jack McDevitt's News:
Jack has a new short story, "Dig Site", in the currant (Nov.) issue of Analog magazine.
Echo... Jack's newest Alex Benedict novel has been nominated for the Nebula and is available in bookstores.
Artwork by John Harris
Surprises packed inside surprises....Effective and moving SF.
---Locus
A superb action thriller.
---Genre Go Round Review
20 years from now reviewers will be comparing other writers to McDevitt....This book is highly recommended and sure to be a joy to all who read it.
---SF Review
The author's fans and lovers of sf mystery/adventure should enjoy this published edition to a popular series.
---Library Journal
Highly recommended. But then I always say that about Mc Devitt's books.
---SFRevu
I've found another reason to look forward to the autumn: the release of a new Jack Mc Devitt novel.
If you've been looking forward to another of Mc Devitt's captivating combinations of big ideas and life-threatening dangers, you'll find that Echo was worth the wait.
---The Press-Sentinel (Jesup, GA)
Available now: Time Travelers Never Die
Shel and his friend Dave Dryden, a language expert, search for Shel's father in Galileo's Italy, Selma during the civil rights marches and other famous times and places. Realizing that time resists paradoxes and history can't be changed, the two friends seize the opportunity to live enriching, truly humane lives from Thermopylae to a few minutes in the future…. Ingeniously handles a tricky denouement….
--Publishers Weekly
I loved the book.
--Florida Times Union
…The conversation with Galileo and the firsthand account of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., capture our imagination, but it takes a scene such as the one in which Dave encounters himself to truly boggle our minds.,,,Travel with Dave and Shel is definitely time well spent.
--Jesup, GA Press Sentinel
…An entertaining romp through the history of the world.
--SF Site
A super time travel thriller.
--Alternative Worlds
McDevitt has come up with a new use for a time machine:
bringing history to life--and a rollicking adventure with a dash of
comedy.
--James Gunn
"Jack McDevitt hits a home run with this witty, charming, yearning novel that puts a new twist on time travel. You can't help but be captivated by Shel and Dave's Excellent Adventure. A first-rate work by one of the true masters of the genre. Enjoy!"
--Robert Sawyer
Jack McDevitt has a well-deserved reputation for writing beautifully extrapolated interplanetary and interstellar narratives, but he can do nigh on to anything. Witness Time Travelers Never Die, a novel that romps across dozens of fascinating human eras -- from Socrates in Athens, Greece, to John Lewis and others in Selma, Alabama -- with great panache and a high degree of wizardly credibility. He also manages to tell several intensely human stories that will touch your heart as well as your intellect.
-- Michael Bishop
"Jack McDevitt makes time travel believable and realistic. TIME TRAVELERS NEVER DIE, full of mystery, romance, and surprises.” is a powerful story.
-----Ben Bova
"Jack McDevitt shows all the pretenders how a time travel novel should be written."
--Mike Resnick
...(not) just a clever and enjoyable time travel adventure. It's also a philosophical and moral meditation on one of the great unanswerable questions... The eternal struggle between free will and determinism. This is the real issue that Time Travelers Never Die tackles.
-- Analog
Reviews of The Devil's Eye
...A fast-paced novel. ...A book that has more ghost hunters than an Indiana Jones adventure,
with twists that reveal secret after secret....
Florida Times Union
Highly, highly recommended,
I think The Devil's Eye is the best McDevitt novel since The Engines of God....
This book will be a tough act to beat in the Alex/Chase universe....
--Fantasy Book Critic
...Displays a truly Asimovian set of attractions....
This book seems to belong on the shelf with recent Matthew Hughes SF/mysteries,
and, ultimately, with the books of that other master of SF mysteries, Jack Vance.
-- Sci Fi Weekly
McDevitt is working familiar SF territory
--playing with effects of scale
-- but without the outsized heroic figures and shiny city-of-the-future movie sets of the pulps.
There is heroic action
(Chase in particular does some pretty snazzy stunt work
and comes in for some well-deserved lionizing by the end),
But it doesn't feel that way from inside the hero.
The big show, McDevitt seems to be saying, is Out There,
and we should remember that we're just playing the lounge.
--Locus
...Retains the author's ability to ground his speculative fiction in human nipulations,
in this case, a pandemic that needs that most political of necessities, a coverup
--Fresno Bee
McDevitt fills the fourth far-future Alex Benedict adventure (after 2005's Nebula-winning Seeker)
with historical details and thrilling stunts as well as sharp political allegory.
--Publishers Weekly
A singularly good example of McDevitt's gift
--the previous Alex Benedict caper, Seeker (2005),
won a Nebula Award-- for combining fast pacing, unforgettable world-building,
and nerve-tingling suspense.
The Bookshelf
"As usual with McDevitt, I recommend this one highly." --Tom Easton, Analog
Sequence of Titles
(The Academy Novels)
- The Engines of God
- Deepsix
- Chindi
- Omega
- Odyssey (November 2006)
- Cauldron
Alex Benedict
Note: The time line for the Alex Benedict novels contains an error in The Devil’s Eye. It’s being corrected in future editions. The correct time line is as follows:
- A Talent for War
- Polaris ...12 years later
- Seeker ...1 year later
- The Devil's Eye ...1year later
- Echo...1year later
Purchase autographed copies of Jack McDevitt's books:
Cryptic@gate.net
ISBN: 0-441-01329-5
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Polaris
ISBN: 0-441-01202-7
$24.95
Outbound
Short story collection
ISBN 0-9759156-4-9
$30.00
Hello Out There
Trade pb: $20.00 (No longer available in hardcover)
Omega
ISBN: 0-441-01046-6
Hardcover: $23.95
Chindi
ISBN: 0-441-00938-7
$22.95
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Bibliographies
Website featured story: Blinker
Fictionwise ebook: Odyssey