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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 the 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 The Columbia comes across a small town seemingly inhabited by an intelligent species not yet discovered.
But when a highly publicized follow-up mission is sent to make contact mere months later, the entire town has vanished, leaving no trace—or such is presumed to be the case until Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew show up to investigate. Officially, their mission is to find concealed artifacts that may have been left behind, but the team’s real goal is to solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly—and why. In turns terrifying and miraculous, the answers raise the stakes for every member on board as they look to make their mark on history.
Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt, whom Stephen King has called “the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke,” brings back Alex, Chase, and Gabe for another brilliantly crafted science fiction mystery.
Centuries after the 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 The Columbia comes across a small town seemingly inhabited by an intelligent species not yet discovered.
But when a highly publicized follow-up mission is sent to make contact mere months later, the entire town has vanished, leaving no trace—or such is presumed to be the case until Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew show up to investigate. Officially, their mission is to find concealed artifacts that may have been left behind, but the team’s real goal is to solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly—and why. In turns terrifying and miraculous, the answers raise the stakes for every member on board as they look to make their mark on history.
Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt, whom Stephen King has called “the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke,” brings back Alex, Chase, and Gabe for another brilliantly crafted science fiction mystery.
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“I started this in print and finished by audio.
This was an interesting clean sci-fi, and I enjoyed it but it didn’t blow me away.
1) I’m coming into a series on book 9, so I don’t know these characters and I felt that lack. While the story may be a stand-alone episode, I feel like much of the character development and interpersonal relationships are in previous books.
2) As a book lover, I LOVE that the aliens made contact with books and that books play role in the story! Beautiful. -and maybe that’s a trope of this series, which is fun.
3.5 stars for slow plot and minimal characterization. (Although, if I have read all of the books, redundant characterization would be aggravating, so, I get it.)
4 stars for fun premise/ plot and book/antique loving characters.
I might circle back and start with #1 sometime. -It was kinda slow though…”
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“I was so happy to return to this world, and Chase Kolpath’s perspective of it. In truth, it’s not as exciting or meaty as I remember the previous ones to be - it was a slow burn whose payoff was a slighter hill than the majority of its predecessors. It could have benefited from another 25 or 50 pages in the end, in my opinion. But I enjoyed it. Honestly, it makes me want to pick up Seeker and again, and run through #3-7 in the series.
3.5/5 stars. It wasn’t amazing, but, again, it was a familiar place to be welcomed back home to.”
About Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Academy series, including The Long Sunset. He attended La Salle University, then joined the Navy, drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a customs inspector’s job on the northern border, and didn’t write another word for a quarter-century. He received a master’s degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. Along with winning the Nebula Award in 2006, he has also been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Achievement. He and his wife live near Brunswick, Georgia.
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