false <![CDATA[Chindi]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1239559808m/382161.jpg 382161 7 Most science fiction seeks to excite and gratify the reader's sense of wonder. Jack McDevitt's hard SF novel <I>Chindi</I> both satisfies and examines this sense of wonder, which inspires not only SF readers and writers, but every explorer and scientist who seeks to understand the universe. <p> In <I>Chindi</I>, humanity has expanded to the stars and found very few other intelligent races--all but one extinct, with the survivor none too impressive. Humanity has resigned itself to being alone. Then an alien satellite is found, orbitting a distant star and beaming an unreadable signal across the galaxy. Academy starship Captain Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins finds herself piloting a motley crew of eccentrics (one an ex-lover) from the idealistic, ridiculed Contact Society, seeking the signal's destination. Their quest turns deadly as it takes them far beyond the borders of explored space to an impossible planetary system--and a vast and terrifying alien artifact. <p> <I>Chindi</I> is an ambitious, exciting, big-idea hard-SF novel that ventures successfully into <I>Rendezvous with Rama</I> territory, and beyond. The sequel to <I>The Engines of God</I> and <I>Deepsix</I>, <I>Chindi</I> leaves some unanswered questions for McDevitt's forthcoming fourth novel. <I>--Cynthia Ward</I> 3098946 2002 Chindi total:419|5:56|4:174|3:153|2:28|1:8| 419 1499 536 43 4 1 false false Mon May 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 07:20:51 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 07:31:10 -0700 2008 Jack McDevitt before. The one line review is "Indiana Jones, in space, no Nazis."

This is not the first book in this series; it appears that Deepsix chronologically precedes this one. That said, as only passing referenc...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 11:32:57 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 11:41:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:22:39 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 01:25:45 -0700 2009
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The story is set in the future several hundred years, where space travel is easily possible and this story tries to search for alien life forms. Enough ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jul 21 21:24:07 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 21:28:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 09 16:36:08 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 09 16:36:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 05 10:57:06 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:09:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 26 14:10:53 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 21:59:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Sep 21 22:57:25 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 21 23:11:04 -0700 2007
If this was the first "hard" science fiction book I'd read, the thought of a massive self-directing artifact whose job is to collect a pan-galactic zoo and was built by a long-vanished uber-race whose me...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 15:57:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 14:53:59 -0700 2009
I like how Mcdevitt fleshes out his characters, even the ones getting killed off. And the plot was an adequat...more...]]> 0 1 true true Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:35:11 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 09:39:19 -0700 2009 0 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jun 30 18:21:39 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 18:22:39 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 17:09:20 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 19:32:55 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 16:34:07 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 16:12:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=382161