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Ancient Shores [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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 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 inland sea, but that was a long time ago--ten th... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Moonfall [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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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 comet. Named for its discover, Tomikois a "sun-grazer... more info>>
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Polaris [Alex Benedict Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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The luxury space yacht Polaris carried an elite group of the wealthy and curious thousands of light-years from Earth to witness a spectacular stellar phenomenon. It never returned. The search party sent to investigate found the Polaris empty and adrift in space, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery. Sixty years later, prominent antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is determined to find the truth about Polaris--no matter how far he must travel across the stars, no matter the risk. Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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Henry James, This One's For You [MultiFormat]
by Jack McDevitt
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 An editor discovers a masterpiece to rival War and Peace in his slush pile. But it comes from an unlikely source. Included also in the McDevitt collection, Outbound, published by ISFiC. (Published: 2005) Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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Infinity Beach [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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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 rest of her ship's crew. Following a few om... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Seeker [Alex Benedict Series Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker--strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger. Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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The Devil's Eye [Alex Benedict Series Book 4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King). 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 past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncov... more info>>
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Time Travelers Never Die [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)]
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"The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King) takes readers on a science fiction adventure tour through time. 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 the aid of Dave MacElroy, a linguist, to accompany him on the rescue mission. Their journey through history takes them from the enlightenment of Renaissance Italy through t... more info>>
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Cauldron [Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins Series Book 6] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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The year is 2255. The academy that trained the starfarers is long gone and veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins spends her retirement supporting fund-raising efforts for The Prometheus Foundation, a privately funded organization devoted to deep space exploration. But when a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, Hutch finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly Omega cl... more info>>
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Chindi [Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins Series Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the first greeting of an undiscovered life form?
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Eternity Road [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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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--a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur'... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Odyssey [Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins Series Book 5] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team of the starship Salvator will soon discover that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous--in a way that no one could possibly have imagined. Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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Omega [Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins Series Book 4] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Jack McDevitt
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A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system--and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world--without revealing their existence. Nebula Award(R) Finalist
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