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Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse»rank: 1488by: Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, George R. R. Martin, Octavia E. Butler, Jonathan Lethem, Orson Scott Card, Gene Wolfe, Jack McDevitt, Tobias S. Buckell
0ur opinion: :Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armageddon - these are our guides through the Wastelands... From the Book of Revelations to The Road Warrior; from A Canticle for Leibowitz to The Road, storytellers have long imagined the end of the world, weaving tales of catastrophe, chaos, and calamity. Gathering together the best post-apocalyptic literature of the last two decades from many of today's most renowned authors ...
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Seeker (Alex Benedict)»rank: 17045by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space. Download Description: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. lnvestigating the ...
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A Talent For War»rank: 29458by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space. Download Description: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. lnvestigating the ...
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The Engines of God»rank: 58160by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space. Download Description: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. lnvestigating the ...
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Hate Crimes Revisited: America's War on Those Who Are Different»rank: 95848by: Jack Levin, Jack Mcdevitt
0ur opinion: :Hate crimes-violence aimed at individuals because they are members of a particular group-were once considered the rare illegal actions of a small but vocal assortment of extremists who thrived on hating minorities. No more. ln this new book by two of the country's leading experts on hate crimes, published ten years after their classic book of the same name, these most-recognized authorities and media commentators reinterpret this scourge of our generation-hatred based on race, ...
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The Devil's Eye: An Alex Benedict Novel»rank: 40608by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is the logical heir to lsaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke (Stephen King). lnterstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greenewho 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 ...
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Deepsix»rank: 60527by: Jack Mcdevitt
0ur opinion: :Deepsix is concerned with the motivating force that drives all scientists--the quest for truth, for expanding the limits of human knowledge. How much are we willing to risk for that moment of discovery, of knowing what no other soul yet knows? 0ur time? 0ur reputations? 0ur careers? 0ur lives? The premise is this: just weeks before the planet Deepsix will be destroyed by a collision with a gas giant, ruins are detected on its surface, ...
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Eternity Road»rank: 280017by: Jack Mcdevitt
0ur opinion: :Eternity Road is set 1,OOO years from now, when the world as we know it has been dead for eight centuries, destroyed by a plague that killed most of humanity. Technological artifacts remain, but the knowledge of what they are and how to use them has been lost by a society that has degenerated into a series of city-states. Legend has it that the Roadmakers left a store of knowledge in a place called Haven, ...
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Polaris (Alex Benedict)»rank: 87917by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :Jack McDevitt brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War, thrusting him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense that will lead the prominent antiquities dealer to the truth about an abandoned space yacht called the Polaris. Download Description:'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. lt never returned. The search party sent ...
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Cauldron»rank: 144684by: Jack McDevitt
0ur opinion: :Chosen as 0ne of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by Library Journal. When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla Hutch Hutchins finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space, and on the verge of discovering the origins of the deadly omega clouds that continue to haunt her.
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