Books by Jack McDevitt
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review 1: The first of the Academy series for me, I chose this one because it's apparently a prequel to the other six books in the series and introduces Priscilla who is the main character of the series. I give it four stars because of how well written it is, and how smoothly the story rol...
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review 1: It's a few years from now, NASA is a ghost of it's past glories. The public sector decides it's time to get back into space and plans an audacious trip to the moon. Now if the book was just about that, I think it might have been good. Instead, the story is an endless chase after ...
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review 1: I really enjoyed this one. I haven't read a lot of McDevitt, but I'll be on the lookout for more of his work. I'm a sucker for time travel stories and I love seeing different people's takes on the paradox problem. This one didn't concern too much with that, instead focusing on as...
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review 1: What if Neil Armstrong was not the first human to walk on the moon? What if there had been a secret moon landing that had never been publicized or acknowledged? And all involved who knew the truth had been sworn to secrecy, with some actually taking that truth to the grave? How c...
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review 1: I've read a number of McDevitt's books and this one is certainly enjoyable as good escapist fun, but I didn't find it as suspenseful or awe-inspiring as some of his earlier books (Chindi, Omega). Set in the far distant future, Alex Benedict, who is a dealer in human and alien ant...
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review 1: I am sorry to say that this book bored me off the bat and by page thirty I returned it to the library. The writer is to blame for this.He takes the roundabout route in telling how two friends discover that the device a dad of them left behind is actually a time travelling machine...