Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt is a Philadelphia native. He is a graduate of LaSalle and holds a master's degree in literature from Wesleyan University.

He has been a naval officer, an English teacher, a motivational trainer, and a customs officer. During his teaching years, McDevitt directed high school,theater groups, appearing (like Hitchcock) in cameos. He was a native in South Pacific, a Nazi bodyguard in The Sound of Music, but his proudest moment came playing the corpse in Arsenic and Old Lace.

McDevitt wrote his first science fiction story in 1980 at the suggestion of his wife Maureen, as an antidote to the routine of training customs inspectors. The story, titled "The Emerson Effect," sold to The Twilight Zone Magazine and was published in the December 1981 issue.

He is married to the former Maureen McAdams of Philadelphia. McDevitt and his family live in Brunswick, Georgia.



Alex Benedict


A Talent For War
Darrell K Sweet

Polaris
John Harris

Seeker
John Harris

Devil's Eye
(Nov 2008)

A Talent for War
Christopher Slim--fighter, leader, and interstellar hero--may, in fact, have ties to the alien Ashiyyur, and it is up to Alex to venture into the core of the alien galaxy to learn the astonishing truth.
Polaris
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. It never returned. The search party sent to investigate found the Polaris empty and adrift in space, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery.
Sixty years later, prominent antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is determined to find the truth about Polaris-no matter how far he must travel across the stars, no matter the risk.

Seeker
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. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker-strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger.


Engines of God/Pricilla Hutchins


The Engines of God
Bob Eggelton

Deepsix
Chris Moore

Chindi
Edwin Herder

Omega
Edwin Herder

Odyssey
Larry Price

Cauldron

Engines of God
Many years ago humans made a discovery in the far reaches of the solar system - a huge statue of an alien creature, with a description that defied all efforts of translation. But except for a set of footprints on Jupiter's moon, there is no trace of the race that has left it behind.
Deepsix
In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Twenty-one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity—a life-supporting planet—is about to vanish forever, as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.
A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team—including Randall Nightingale, a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure—must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet's lifeforms and lost civilizations.
But then the unthinkable occurs. An earthquake destroys the explorers' only means of escape. As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above,Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad. And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way, to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant.
Chindi
Something - or somebody - has left a series of satellites in orbit around various planets in the galaxy. Now a crew sets off to discover the origin of the satellites - and learn if mankind is no longer alone among the stars.
Omega
A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system-and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world-without revealing their existence.
Odyssey
To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But the team soon discovers that their odyssey is no mere public-relations ploy, for the moonriders are not a harmless phenomenon. They are very, very dangerous-in a way that no one could possibly have imagined.
Cauldron


Novels


The Hercules Text
Earl Keleny

Ancient Shores
Jim Burns

Eternity Road
Joe Danisi

Moonfall
John Ennis

Infinity Beach
Craig Attebery

The Hercules Text
Ancient Shores
It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker's wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was a long time ago - ten thousand years ago.
Eternity Road
The Roadmakers left only ruins behind - but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too - a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact - a book called 'A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court' - which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty river pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.
Moonfall
A comet is coming. It's going to hit the moon. And the moon is going to fall. It's a tough call for the President. Does he declare a state of emergency and start evacuating the entire coastal population of America? Does he panic? Wouldn't you?
Infinity Beach/Slow Lightning
We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it's believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final, unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the rest of her ship's crew.
Following a few ominous clues, Kim discovers the ship's log was faked. Something happened out there in the darkness between the stars, and she's prepared to go to any length to find answers. Even if it means giving up her career...stealing a starship...losing her lover. Kim is about to discover the truth about her sister - and about more than she ever dared imagine.



Collections


Standard Candles
Michael Dashow

Hello Out There (Onimbus)
Bob Eggleton


Standard Candles
Hello Out There
Most of us are attracted to the idea that the human race is not alone. Encountering other beings, we believe, will be romantic, exciting, thought-provoking, intriguing. And possibly dangerous. After all, one of our time-honored notions since H.G. Wells is that we may well be perceived by Others as little more than snacks, or subjects for religious conversion, or creatures of such insignificance as to be simply swept aside. No matter, we think cheerfully. We will take the risk. (the hercules text and a talent for war)



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