Jack McDevitt
1) Deepsix
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Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Planetary explorer and alien archaeologist Priscilla Hutchins investigates reports of sentient life on a planet called Deepsix and finds herself on a rescue mission to the planet fated to be destroyed by a collision with a rogue moon.
2) Thunderbird
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Series
Ancient shores volume 2
Description
When an ancient stargate is discovered near Devil's Lake in North Dakota, the ensuing race to claim and explore the stargate triggers heated debates about humanity's role in the galaxy.
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Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"The Roadmakers left only ruins behind - but what magnificent ruins!"--BOOK JACKET. "Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their shattered towers still gleam on the banks of the Mississippi. Their cups and combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. The lost race left behind a legend, as well - a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where a few Roadmakers hid from the mysterious Plague that destroyed their world, and where even now...
4) Coming home
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
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Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tantalizing questions. Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have gone to Earth to learn the truth. But the trail seems to have gone cold, so they head back home to be present when...
5) Starhawk
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" Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure; Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's license. Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely....
6) Moonfall
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Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems." "But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new comet. Named for its discoverer, Tomiko is a "sun-grazer," an interstellar wanderer with a hundred times the mass and ten times the speed of other comets. And it is headed straight for our moon." "In less than five days, if scientists' predictions are right, Tomiko will crash...
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
What happens when first contact goes horribly wrong? When that initial meeting between two sentient species leads to utter confusion and misunderstanding, murder and hijacking, and a tight-lipped coverup for years afterward? Jack McDevitt sets this situation up in Infinity Beach, describing humanity at the end of the third millennium as a solitary race, seemingly alone in the cosmos even after colonizing many worlds beyond Earth: "The universe has...
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Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
The story of an archeological dig on planets in space. The heroine is Priscilla Hutchins, the pilot of the expedition, and it is she, an untrained archeologist, who finally solves the mystery of an ancient space civilization. By the author of The Hercules Text.
10) Octavia gone
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Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"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...
11) The long sunset
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Series
Pub. Date
208.
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
12) Echo
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Alex Benedict and his assistant look for a stone tablet that may prove the existence of several forms of alien life, an investigation that sends them into the path of an assassin.
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Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 9
Pub. Date
2023
Description
In Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt's ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away-only for it to disappear without a trace.
Centuries after a war with the Mutes, the first aliens to be encountered by humankind, a startling new discovery in the far reaches of the Orion Nebula appears. On a planet with conditions favorable to life, explorer vessel...
15) Omega
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
The best military and scientific minds on Earth band together in a desperate attempt to preserve an alien society from the deadly force heading for its home planet.
16) The devil's eye
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
17) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
18) Polaris
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Sixty years after the disappearance of the passengers and crew of the luxury space yacht Polaris, found empty and adrift in space, Alex Benedict sets out to uncover the truth about the Polaris and to reveal the fate of its passengers.
19) Cauldron
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Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 6
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Description
In 2255, veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fundraising efforts for an organization devoted to deep-space exploration. Soon, Hutch finds herself on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega clouds that continue to haunt her.
20) Odyssey
Author
Series
Priscilla Hutchins series volume 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon realizes that their mission has become dangerous when they discover the truth about the moonriders.