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Chindi

(The Academy #3)

Jack McDevitt

3.88 · Rating details · 4,844 ratings · 259 reviews

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 Soci ...more

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Published October 28th 2003 by Ace (first published July 2002)

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Jul 17, 2018 Bradley rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2018-shelf, sci-fi, space-opera

As always, McDevitt writes SOLID space opera without the military bent. I still think the whole archeology and privateer stuff works SO much better than the whole space-battle stuff, but it only works when most of the alien civs have risen and fallen over vast time periods and we just happen to sit smack dab in the middle of a time of silence.

With a few minor exceptions, of course. Ancient fallen descendants or lightspeed lagged spaceships notwithstanding. :)

Or other alien archeologists?

Fun. :) ...more

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May 14, 2008 Garret Reece rated it really liked it

Another Library of Babel recommendation; I'd never heard of 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 reference to the first book is made (and if I hadn't noticed it on the shelf at the library when I got this book, I could believe that no book existed), this book stands on its own just fine.

The plot follows a small exploration sh ...more

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Mar 04, 2014 Otherwyrld rated it it was ok

Shelves: science-fiction

A lot of people seem to like this book, but I found it pretty annoying for the most part. In the not-too-distant future, a large part of the galaxy has been explored by humanity but few other intelligent species have been found. A group of rich people who are determined to make first contact commission a new starship and hire Captain Priscilla Hutchins (called Hutch for most of the time) to investigate a mysterious signal found in orbit around a neutron star. From there, they make the discovery A lot of people seem to like this book, but I found it pretty annoying for the most part. In the not-too-distant future, a large part of the galaxy has been explored by humanity but few other intelligent species have been found. A group of rich people who are determined to make first contact commission a new starship and hire Captain Priscilla Hutchins (called Hutch for most of the time) to investigate a mysterious signal found in orbit around a neutron star. From there, they make the discovery of a lifetime, tracking signals from a massive alien relay system from one planet to another, each with its own intelligent life(though some are long dead) until finally they come across a huge starship that they call the Chindi (after a supernatural creature) which proves to be treasure trove they were seeking.

Sounds great in principle, but the reason I disliked the book was that the characters were so awful. Most of the passengers are rich and spoiled, and treat Hutch with a sneering contempt every time she urges caution. Even when her warnings prove true and people die (and lots of people do), they still fail to listen, blundering into one situation after another.

They may be an archeological expedition, but it's strictly amateur hour here. Not one of them even thought about getting any qualifications in the fields they might need on such an expedition, which is hardly surprising when their numbers include a stripper/porn star, an artist and a funeral director!

Hutch is just as bad at times, as she constantly fails to assert her authority on these unruly and badly behaved children. Even when two other starships are destroyed, she still doesn't pull the plug. Even though she was picked for the mission, it feels as if she was chosen because she could be bullied into doing things that she knew was a mistake, and I have a horrible suspicion that the character was made female just to make this point. There is always a faint suspicion of sexism throughout the story - nothing too overt, but it made me uneasy.

The story picks up a bit towards the end, but even then it has failings as Hutch attempts a desperate and foolhardy rescue of someone trapped aboard the Chindi, and all for the sake of "Twue Wuv" as she has decided that it it was a mistake to breakup with this guy as she had done years before. The action and rescue attempt itself almost, almost made me give it 3 stars, but it was too little, too late.

Captain Picard would have thrown this lot in the brig. ...more

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Feb 27, 2008 Mike rated it really liked it

Shelves: scifi

My first book by McDevitt. Started slow but gets going soon enough. The story and science work nicely together. He has no problem with main characters meeting their demise as the story unfolds. The story should be have a subtitle "Chindi: or how many rescue missions can Hutch pull off?" I like her and the final rescue is a great thrill. The ending is a very unsubtle opening for a follow-on story. Guess I'm going to be collecting some more of his books. Strong recommendation for an enjoyable read ...more

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Jul 08, 2016 Bee rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction, audiobook, pulp-scifi

If you enjoyed the other 3 books, you're gonna enjoy this one. Each book is pretty much a stand alone, but the chronology of discoveries makes more sense in order, obviously. This one was a lot more spectacular than book 2 and 3. Wonderful ancient alien discoveries and stuff. Another hair brained rescue attempt and survival against the odds and stuff. In other words, exactly what it says on the box.

I am sad to say (view spoiler) ...more

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Jun 19, 2015 Mitchell rated it liked it

Shelves: liked-reviews, fiction, own, science-fiction, series

Exhausting. An endless cycle of bravery and idiocy and desperate rescue missions in which someone must die. Interesting and inventive but still with a minimum of believable character development. But the ideas and concepts are mostly worthwhile. But too long and with too much repetition. So not soft enough for space opera and not hard enough for hard science. And not gripping enough to really recommend. 3.5 of 5.

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Dec 30, 2016 Kelly rated it it was amazing

Excellent adventure story, packed with tech, exploration and humanity.

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Jul 15, 2008 Melissa McShane rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own, space-travel, favorites, action-adventure, science-fiction, exploration

This is definitely my favorite of the Priscilla Hutchins/Academy novels. Obviously it's because it has one of my favorite things, Archaeology In Space!, but also because it's so intense that I'm on the edge of whatever seat I'm using every time I read it. It's a lot like a horror novel in that respect; everyone is just so dumb about the risks they're taking, and they never get any smarter. It's always push, push, push, just a little farther, explore just one more room in the dark, deserted, alie ...more

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Apr 23, 2013 Dawson rated it really liked it

Shelves: sci-fi-space

You can get a synopsis of the plot on the Amazon pages. So I am going to give my impression of the overall series.

Some of the action is a bit over the top, but this is a thought provoking book. I recommend it.

If you've read one of my review of the series you've already read below.

Part of a 6 book (so far) series. As another reviewer said, the books have something of a mystery novel feel to it. Much more noticeable is the documentary/diary feel to this series. Overall though, it is good "hard sc ...more

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Jul 22, 2020 Garry Geer rated it liked it

Fun read, but seemed a little repetitive after the last book. Nonetheless there were some great exploration of various concepts. Some of the character's choices seemed a little hard to swallow but it was understandable in the context of the narrative itself.

Still enjoying my run through the series, and looking forward to the next volume.
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Nov 30, 2017 Charlie rated it it was amazing

Another great sci-fi adventure from McDevitt. Really good characters and imaginative situations. The technology has advance a little from the previous book in the series. The knowledge gained in the previous book has been incorporated and enables the situations presented in this book.

How many crises can be averted (or not) at the last minute in one book?

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Dec 08, 2013 Roddy Williams rated it really liked it

Shelves: big-dumb-objects, science-fiction, elder-race, archaeology

‘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? Academy starship captain Priscilla Hutchins and the once-maligned Contact Society are about to learn the answers… to more questions than they could possibly conceive of asking.’

Blurb from the 2003 Ace p ‘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? Academy starship captain Priscilla Hutchins and the once-maligned Contact Society are about to learn the answers… to more questions than they could possibly conceive of asking.’

Blurb from the 2003 Ace paperback edition

Once more, Hutch is piloting a group of alien-hunters. This time it is the much maligned First Contact Society, who have discovered part of a transmission emanating in orbit around a neutron star.
As much as one wants to love this book (and one can’t really fault it as a decent SF novel) one can’t help feeling that McDevitt is repeating himself on several levels. Again Hutch gets close to a man, and yes, he dies tragically. Almost simultaneously, the artist Tor, one of Hutch’s ex-lovers, manages to grab himself a berth on this new expedition, along with an undertaker and a famous starlet.
It appears there is a network of stealth satellites scattered through at least our part of the galaxy and they are recording and transmitting data to somewhere else. That somewhere else happens to be an odd arrangement of gas giants, their attendant moons, rings and one building set on a moon which orbits this whole arrangement and its spectacular views.
The Retreat, as it is named, is abandoned but had two occupants who are buried nearby.
However, this is not the relay’s destination, for the party discover, refuelling from the gas-giant’s plentiful hydrogen, an asteroid converted into a ship which, it transpires, is a vast travelling storehouse of images and artefacts collected from thousands of races.
Hutch, having lost her newest man in an explosion at the neutron star, does not want more of her passengers to die, but they do. Some are attacked and eaten by angel-like aliens on an idyllic world.
Then, they insist on exploring the Chindi – as they name the ship – and, as was expected, it decides to leave.
There is then a race against time to rescue Hutch’s ex-lover, left behind on the giant asteroid ship.
Again, McDevitt’s Americocentricity is irritating, although I was amused that Hutch, accessing the news from Earth, was reading about a new serial killer in Derbyshire, a county already famous for its violence and multiple murder mayhem.
McDevitt’s aliens are irritating too, as so far, the races have not been alien enough. In the Chindi one of the first things the explorers find is a tableaux of some world where a wolf-like creature is standing before a table wearing a dinner jacket.
Thinking this through, quite apart from any issues of sexism, one has to say that the jacket, not even specifically the dinner jacket, as a fashion phenomenon, is not that recent and occupies a tiny fraction of the diverse gallimaufry of humanwear, and is also a generally western concept. For an alien race of wolf-like creatures to have come up with something similar and to have been discovered by humanity in the epoch in which this fashion was popular rather stretches my disbelief. These are Star Trek aliens, furry or bumpy-headed humanoids who think the same way we do, or at least, the same way Americans do. ...more

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Nov 26, 2012 David rated it it was amazing

Shelves: science-fiction

"Chindi" is the third novel in the Priscilla Hutchins series. The archaeological mysteries continue.

"Hutch", as her friends call her, is fed up with her career as pilot. She gets all of the blame when things go wrong and none of the credit when things go right. She's been asked by her employer, the Science Academy, to pilot one last mission before landing a desk job: ferry the well heeled members of the "Contact Society", an E.T.-phile crowd, around in a ship they commissioned for the Academy on "Chindi" is the third novel in the Priscilla Hutchins series. The archaeological mysteries continue.

"Hutch", as her friends call her, is fed up with her career as pilot. She gets all of the blame when things go wrong and none of the credit when things go right. She's been asked by her employer, the Science Academy, to pilot one last mission before landing a desk job: ferry the well heeled members of the "Contact Society", an E.T.-phile crowd, around in a ship they commissioned for the Academy on its maiden voyage to investigate a strange signal emanating from the vicinity of a neutron star.

We journey with the crew as they discover a network of stealth satellites engaged in the observation of several worlds. As Hutch and her passengers track down clues to who built the network and why, they visit several worlds in the network and even make first contact with a new alien species. It's significant in that most worlds explored in this series contain the ruins of long dead civilizations, with one or two exceptions.

One of Hutch's passengers is an ex-boyfriend. Readers of previous works know that Hutch has been unlucky in love. Her career doesn't leave much time on Earth for relationships. Interstellar pilot really gives a new meaning to long distance relationships. Most give up. Hutch's relationship with this ex, Tor, makes for an interesting sub-plot, though it takes a while to really develop.

I don't want to give away too much, but suffice it to say that the Contact Society may have bitten off more than it could chew. Fatal mishaps plague the expedition, but they press on. Their compelling need to get to the bottom of the mystery pushes them on. They're rewarded with the discovery of the "chindi," a massive starship that they believe is the key to the stealth satellite network. Despite everything that has gone wrong and Hutch's warnings, the remaining members of the Contact Society set out to make contact with the chindi. The story reaches its climax with Hutch setting out to rescue her passengers from the chindi after a surprise turn of events.

McDevitt's writing style returns to the top form he achieved with Engines of God and quite possibly surpasses it. While Deepsix was a bit of a disappointment to this reader, Chindi made up for it. While his ability to weave a good mystery has never been a problem, McDevitt's use of characterization in Chindi easily surpasses what he provided in the previous two novels in this series. And the level of action and suspense also return to the level presented in Engines of God. This was a novel that I had a tough time putting down. Excellent work. Highly recommended. ...more

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Sep 28, 2010 Christopher McKitterick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is a novel about the kinds of people who explore the unknown, who push the boundaries of the human world. The true believers and fanatics fund and design their missions, and other brave souls go along for various reasons: It's a job, one of their best friends or loved ones is going, or they just think it'll be an adventure. George and Nick are the fanatics, and without them, humanity never would have discovered the interestellar, alien communications network, the various rising and fallen c This is a novel about the kinds of people who explore the unknown, who push the boundaries of the human world. The true believers and fanatics fund and design their missions, and other brave souls go along for various reasons: It's a job, one of their best friends or loved ones is going, or they just think it'll be an adventure. George and Nick are the fanatics, and without them, humanity never would have discovered the interestellar, alien communications network, the various rising and fallen civilizations, the retreat, the chindi, or their own lost vessel. So heroics arise naturally, because if someone needs saving and A) it's your job, or B) it's someone you care about, you just do it. So it's also a novel about what people will do for one another, even those they've just met but with whom they have gone through adventures.

Again, this feel like the script for a movie Hollywood should make. McDevitt's novels are always full of great dialogue, daring rescues, and awe-inspiring settings. But this novel is satisfying in many more ways. Another thing that McDevitt always does so well is give us insight into what it means to be human; perhaps more specifically, how humans treat one another, how we become better people through our interactions with worthy others. And I always end up marking a few passages that seem to really stand out, such as these:

" had taught Hutch a long time back about the vagaries of human conversation, the things that really mattered, which were not at all the words, or even the tones, but rather the moment-to-moment reactions people had to one another, the sudden glitter of understanding in the eyes, the raised hand that accompanied a request for additional explanation, the signal of approval or dismay or affection that a given phrase might induce."

"Embrace your life, find what it is you love, and pursue it with all your soul. For if you do not, when you come to die, you will find that you have not lived."

Good stuff.

Finally, any book that makes me spend the wee hours of the morning after having finished it writing story notes and ideas has got to be good! I finished this novel at 3:30am (a real page-turner) and couldn't get to bed until after four because I was full of revision ideas (for my own work) inspired by this book.

Definitely recommended! ...more

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May 06, 2013 James Mourgos rated it liked it

Shelves: sci-fi

In “Chindi” we got to learn a lot more about Priscilla Hutchins’ love lives. She gets talked into taking a ship out to where signals were heard, which are artificial in nature. The crew she takes with her are from a group many at the time think are a little nutty. And they certainly seem to be. They want to hunt for UFOs and aliens, regardless that at this time there have been many faster than light ships out there and not much was found.

After a long, long intro and some flashback, where she fl ...more

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Apr 29, 2011 Mark rated it really liked it

This one's been sat on the shelf for a while.

McDevitt has a reputation for solid old-fashioned SF, with an emphasis on plot rather than characterisation. His work reminds me of the SF being published (and I was reading!) back in the 1980's.

This is pretty much that.

Where McDevitt scores is in developing that 'sensawunder' for the reader, so reminiscent to me of the Analogs and Astoundings of years gone by. Here we have long dead aliens and their cultural remains uncovered, underneath a sky with n ...more

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Aug 27, 2012 Alex Shrugged rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reviewed-books

I've read two other of McDevitt's books and they were both good reads.... "The Engines of God" and "Omega". In Omega the characters reference events that occurred during Chindi so I read it to find out what had happened. I found the book to be a very exciting and enjoyed it immensely.

It has a strong woman main character (Hutch) but what I like about it is that the characters are not too smart and not too brave. They are only smart enough and brave enough. That makes them more real to me. The cir ...more

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Oct 15, 2013 Clark Hallman rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: science-fiction, 2015

Chindi by Jack McDevitt – This is the third book in the Priscilla Hutchins (Academy/Engines of God) series by McDevitt. After a mysterious transmission of unknown origin is received by a deep-space interstellar ship. Hutch is hired to take a group of wealthy alien-hunter/enthusiasts into space in search of the aliens that sent the transmission. They encounter more transmissions and they appear to be the real thing. Hutch and her naïve, arrogant and totally unprepared alien hunters undertake a di ...more

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Jun 21, 2012 L rated it it was amazing

Shelves: sci-fi

McDevitt is always good and it was great to visit with Hutch and Bill for a while, as expected. Beyong that, though, this book struck me as exceptional. McDevitt raised a lot of hard issues about space exploration, the search for "the Other," and the great potential for "othering" those found/met. He also had Hutch do some things that would appear, from the calm of one's livingroom, to be the usual sort of "stupid mistakes" authors often have women leads make. She also seemed to passively accept ...more

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Sep 21, 2007 Dan rated it did not like it

Recommends it for: First-time hard-SF readers

Shelves: sci-fi

Formulaic, predictable, bland and unambitious. (** Some spoilers ahead **)

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 mere detritus exceeds man's tiny grasp might indeed make for "an ambitious, exciting, big-idea hard-SF novel".

When we finally do encounter the mother-lode of alien treasure, it turns out to be a summer-home for some rich guy ...more

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May 26, 2008 Chessa rated it liked it

Recommends it for: fans of hard SF

Shelves: sf_fantasy

I liked this book in that it made me ponder the cosmological mysteries that never get boring - how stars are born and die, long-term events in space...But otherwise it's a straight 3-star book - not bad, not life-changing, but enough that I would most certainly read the author again. The main characters were all drawn very well, particularly the protagonist, Hutch (and I would also add that I was particularly happy to see a woman in the role she was in). But something about the sequence of event ...more

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Jul 22, 2011 Jerry rated it really liked it

Former Naval officer Jack McDevitt has become a space opera wunderkind over the past decade or so. Chindi is one of several novels about Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, a female spacefaring captain who goes on many an intergalactic adventure. I've been a fan of Mr. McDevitt's works for years, so, I thought this novel was great. Was it his best? No...but it definitely was not his worst, and those who are new to Mr. McDevitt's works, or the "Hutch" series, would do well to start with this one.

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Aug 20, 2009 Hypnofrog rated it liked it

This book is a part of a 5 book series, but I believe it works much better as a standalone book. We follow the life of Precilla Hutchins, who has retired from her job as a pilot, but is convinced to take one more journey.

+ The alien races described in this book are creative and non-humanoid.
+ Hutchins is a strong female lead, but not a "femme fatale" or a needy slut.
+ A possitive view of the future.
+ A nice mystery that is left ambiguous by the book's end

- Characters are often fleshed out and ...more

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Aug 24, 2012 Craig rated it really liked it

One of the great tropes of classic sense-of-wonder science fiction is the space museum, which McDevitt uses with great success in this one. It's the third book in the Priscilla Hutchins series. We don't actually meet the aliens, but the archaeological investigations are presented with such deft grandeur that the results are Ozymandian. There are also some terrific hard-sf puzzles that are solved in a very clever manner. I didn't enjoy the characters quite as much as in the earlier books of the s ...more

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Mar 11, 2016 Mark Austin rated it really liked it

The Academy books take scifi a direction I never thought I would enjoy, focused on exploration, science, and politics. From discovering new worlds to rescue missions, discovering primitive alien races, ancient worlds with hyper-evolved predators, to alien artifacts and strange stellar events, the stories manage to stay pretty fresh and varied with a semi-consistent cast between books thanks to increased life-spans.

While I lean more towards war and conflict-focused scifi (or any fiction, really), ...more

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Mar 23, 2009 Leagle rated it it was ok

Meh. McDevitt's readable; he maintains just enough interest to keep me turning the pages, but not very enthusiastically. I guess "workmanlike" would be the way to put it. Chindi, as with many of his science fiction works, has little character development (his protagonist, Priscilla Hutchins, a starship pilot, feels very cardboard-cutout-like), has characters doing poorly-thought-out and irrational things, and treats starship travel almost as if Hutchins is a glorified bus driver. Doesn't exactly ...more

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Aug 14, 2009 Parthena rated it liked it

I almost feel like a third of this book consisted of stressful rescue missions.....after the second or third rescue attempt, I found myself almost wanting to skip 5-10 pages at once just to get to the resolution of it and begin the next scene. I found a lot of scenes in this book to be pretty irrelevant to plot development or character development, and I was extremely unsatisfied with the ending and its lack of resolution of many plotpoints....

That said, there were some intriguing ideas, I only ...more

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Feb 25, 2016 M Hamed rated it it was ok

Shelves: hard-sci-fi, 2016

the same sterile formula of the previous two books :blend beginning followed by a an interesting revelation and 200 pages of nothingness and ended with a heroic\desperate rescue

-i still call for the castration for those that think they can wright a female inner psyche
-maybe I'm getting it wrong,but the anti-grav only dampen 15% of inertia how the ship can travel at the speed of .26 c with out them turning to jelly
and how could they go outside the ship and Manoeuvre at that speed ...more

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Aug 02, 2009 Karl Schmiedeskamp added it

Recommends it for: No one I like

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Oct 13, 2012 Brian rated it it was ok

Fun concept, but the characters are unbelievably stupid time after time. UFO nuts have spaceship, will travel.

Laura Croft is a cautious, careful, reverent, painstaking archeologist in comparison.

Not to mention the really far fetched forced problems used to push the story. Compare 30 km/r to 1/3C....

Skip this one.

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Jack McDevitt is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. His work has been on the final ballot for the Nebula Awards for 12 of the past 13 years. His first novel, The Hercules Text, was published in the celebrated Ace Specials series and won the Philip K. Dick Special Award. In 1991, McDevitt won the first $10,000 UPC Internation ...more