Jack McDevitt je autor, ktorého diela sa vyznačujú hlbokým záujmom o vedu a jej dopad na ľudstvo. Svoje príbehy zasadzuje do vesmíru a skúma v nich témy ako objavovanie, strata a samotná podstata ľudskej existencie. Jeho štýl je často opisovaný ako premyslený a plný úžasu, ktorý čitateľa vtiahne do rozsiahlych kozmických záhad. McDevittov prístup kombinuje vedeckú presnosť s emotívnym rozprávaním, čo z jeho kníh robí pútave čítanie pre milovníkov sci-fi.
Im Jahr 2223 droht der Mond den Planeten Maleiva III zu vernichten. Pilotin Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins leitet ein Team von Wissenschaftlern, um vor der Zerstörung mehr über die Lebensformen und Zivilisationen des Planeten zu erfahren. Doch das Team strandet und muss ums Überleben kämpfen, während die Apokalypse näher rückt.
In North Dakota entdeckt ein Bauer auf seinem Feld inmitten der Prärie die Überreste eines Segelschiffes aus einem hochmodernen, Fiber-glasähnlichen Material. Und in der Tat bildete sein Acker vor Jahren die Küste eines großen Sees - vor Zehntausenden Jahren! Bald schon wird eine weitere archäologische Entdeckung gemacht: ein Rundhaus, das sich als ein Tor zu anderen Welten entpuppt. Verschiedene Interessengruppen prallen aufeinander: Wissenschaftler, Politiker und nicht zuletzt die Indianer, in deren Reservat die Artefakte gefunden wurden. "McDevitt ist der legitime Erbe Isaac Asimovs!" Publishcis WeekIy Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung
The fourth novel in the acclaimed Alex Benedict series from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. 'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World
To overcome humankind's waning interest in interstellar travel, a special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon discovers that their mission has become far more dangerous when they stumble upon the perilous truth about the moonriders. Reprint.
Classic sense-of-wonder sf from the author of THE ENGINES OF GOD. We are alone in the universe. We have faster-than-light travel. We've been looking for over 1,000 years, and there is simply nothing out there. The universe is a magnificent, but sterile, wilderness -- and it all belongs to us. Maybe we're lucky. That's the received wisdom, anyway. A new expedition, investigating a mysteriously aborted mission 27 years earlier, is about to turn that wisdom on its head.
Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation. Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration, humans are finding other relics of the race they call the Monument-Makers - each different, and each heartbreakingly beautiful. But except for a set of footprints on Jupiter's moon Iapetus, there is no trace of the enigmatic race that has left them behind. Then a team of scientists working on a dead world discover an ominous new image of the Monument-Makers. Somehow it all fits with other lost civilizations, and possibly with Earth's own future. And distant past. But Earth itself is on the brink of ecological disaster - there is no time to search for answers. Even to a question that may hold the key to survival for the entire human race...
On a routine survey mission studying a neutron star, an Academy starship receives a transmission in an unknown language. Before leaving the area, the starship launches a series of satellites to find the signal—and perhaps discover its origins. Five years later, a satellite finally encounters the signal—which is believed to be of extraterrestrial origin by the Contact Society, a wealthy group of enthusiasts who fund research into the existence of alien life. Providing a starship to the Academy to be piloted by Captain Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins, the Contact Society embarks on a mission to find the source of the transmission. Across a myriad of stars, from world to world, Hutch and her crew follow the signal, but find only puzzles and lethal surprises. Then, in a planetary system far beyond the bounds of previous exploration, they discover an object. It is immense, ominous, and mysterious. And it may hold the answer not only to the questions of the Contact Society, but to those of every person who has ever looked to the sky and wondered if we were alone...
A Campbell Award winner and Nebula Award finalist from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. Fourth in the acclaimed Academy series. 'McDevitt honors the memory of his predecessors by writing up to their level' SciFi.com
It's 2225. Mankind has reached the outskirts of the universe, and found traces of a civilization on the Maleiva III, known as Deepsix. Archaeologists land to record and salvage civilization and the team is stranded there with no way of escape.