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Blog #85
Village in the Sky will be released on January 31st.... An exploration starship discovers a village on a distant world. Lights are on,...

Jack McDevitt
Jun 24, 20221 min read
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Blog #84
One of the news channels last week ran a story about a teacher who was trying to convince her students that they were talented. She had...

Jack McDevitt
Aug 30, 20212 min read
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Blog #82 Part II
The reality is that books help us get through pandemics, but the truth is that, in many ways, they simply help make our lives matter. I...

Jack McDevitt
Aug 4, 20212 min read
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Blog #82
There aren’t many good things to be said about the Covid virus, but despite all our complaining about hiding in our homes, it did provide...

Jack McDevitt
Aug 1, 20212 min read
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Blog #81
It’s been a busy year. I spent the first half of it writing Village in the Sky, and the rest of it doing short fiction for Nature,...

Jack McDevitt
Jul 13, 20212 min read
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Blog #80
We have good news from Baen Books: They are reprinting Going Interstellar in trade paper format this fall. The idea for the book came...
Jack McDevitt
Jun 30, 20211 min read
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Blog #79
The media have become crowded with claims of UFO sightings, largely by naval aviators and pilots of civilian transport planes. The...
Jack McDevitt
Jun 14, 20211 min read
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Blog #78
The Constant Circle is a biography of H.L. Mencken, written by a longtime friend, Sara Mayfield. She was also a close friend of Sara...
Jack McDevitt
May 29, 20211 min read
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Blog #77
In 2011 I met Les Johnson, a NASA executive who, if he’d wanted to, could have put together a successful career as a science fiction...
Jack McDevitt
May 16, 20212 min read
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Blog #76
I discovered Henry Mencken when I was in grade school. It was the late forties and I came across an article about him in Life Magazine....
Jack McDevitt
May 3, 20212 min read
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Blog #75
Not So is a book that got lost in my shelves until recently. It’s a collection of popular stories about American history that we’ve all...
Jack McDevitt
Apr 16, 20212 min read
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Blog#74
During my early years, the only comedy films I knew were Abbott & Costello, the Three Stooges, and Stan & Ollie. They were good at what...
Jack McDevitt
Apr 3, 20212 min read
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Blog #73
I learned recently to be careful about making general statements. I’d always been impressed by Ernest Hemingway’s writing. I recall a...
Jack McDevitt
Mar 15, 20213 min read
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Blog #72
A notification arrived yesterday from a longtime friend that blog entries had gone missing over the last few weeks. My first reaction had...
Jack McDevitt
Mar 4, 20213 min read
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Blog #71
McFarland & Co. has just released Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder, by Joe Sanders, a professor emeritus at Lakeland...
Jack McDevitt
Jan 21, 20212 min read
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Blog#70
Back when I was about ten years old, we’d arrived in early December and the days were moving slowly on. My mind was filled with upcoming...
Jack McDevitt
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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Blog #69
Two days ago, we lost a giant. Ben Bova died of a combination of Coronavirus 19, pneumonia, and a stroke. During his long career, he won...
Jack McDevitt
Dec 2, 20201 min read
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Blog #68
I finished the second draft of Uncharted Territory Friday. Normally, Maureen and I would celebrate by going out for dinner and maybe...
Jack McDevitt
Nov 14, 20203 min read
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Blog #67
I owe a thank you to the cast and crew of the starship Farragut. The current issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Nov-Dec, is...
Jack McDevitt
Oct 29, 20201 min read
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Blog #66
I was at a Sunday gathering at my Uncle Roy’s home in Philadelphia in 1941 and was struck when everyone suddenly grew quiet. The radio...
Jack McDevitt
Oct 12, 20202 min read
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