Jack McDevitt Libri

IL LUNGO TRAMONTO Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins è stata per decenni il miglior pilota dell'Accademia, guidando spedizioni di primo contatto che l'hanno fatta diventare una celebrità. Poi, a causa del crescente timore che il programma di esplorazione spaziale portasse all'incontro con civiltà extraterrestri più avanzate della nostra e potesse scatenare una guerra, tutto si è fermato. Ma quando all'improvviso arriva un messaggio alieno da una zona inesplorata della galassia, l'ultima nave interstellare viene preparata per il viaggio, e sarà proprio Hutch a pilotarla. Quello che lei e il suo equipaggio troveranno nello spazio profondo, sarà qualcosa di totalmente inaspettato...

It's 2225. Mankind has reached the outskirts of the universe, and found traces of a civilization on the Maleiva III, known as Deepsix. Archaeologists land to record and salvage civilization and the team is stranded there with no way of escape.

A nominee for the 2015 Nebula Award, COMING HOME is a brilliant novel of interstellar travel, with an 8,000-year-old mystery finally to be resolved

A Nebula Award finalist for Best Novel from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. Sixth in the acclaimed Alex Benedict series. 'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World

A thrilling space rescue mission unfolds as Alex Benedict, a renowned character from the Nebula Award-winning author, embarks on an adventure filled with excitement and challenges. With a blend of humor and suspense, the narrative promises to engage readers as Benedict navigates the complexities of interstellar travel and the stakes of saving lives. This captivating tale combines elements of science fiction with a lighthearted tone, making it an entertaining read for fans of the genre.

The fourth novel in the acclaimed Alex Benedict series from the multi-award winning SF master Jack McDevitt. 'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World

From Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series featuring Gabe triumphantly reuniting with Alex and Chase to retrieve a possible alien artifact—which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers. After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe has returned, and is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead—just as Alex and Chase are relearning how to live and work with him. But when a seemingly alien artifact goes missing from Gabe’s old collection, a mystery is uncovered concerning its origins and it grants everyone an opportunity to dive into solving it as a team, once again. When a lead on the artifact is tied to a dead pilot’s sole unrecorded trip, another clue leads to one of the greatest mysteries of the age: the infamous disappearance of a team of scientists aboard a space station orbiting a black hole—the Amelia Earhart of their time. With any luck, Alex, Chase, and Gabe may be on the trail of the greatest archaeological discovery of their careers. Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt, who Stephen King has called “the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke,” has created another terrific science fiction mystery in his beloved Alex Benedict series.

Interstellar pilot Priscilla 'Hutch' Hutchins has seen a lot of action. But now, multi award-winning science-fiction master Jack McDevitt gives us the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat tale of how it all began ...Hutch has finally realised her dream: she's completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pilot's licence. Her timing is far from optimal, however. Faster-than-light travel has only recently become a reality and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life forms, outraging people on Earth. So interstellar pilots are not exactly in demand. Although Hutch fears her career may be over before it has begun, her ambition won't be denied and soon she is on the bridge of an interstellar ship, working for the corporation that is responsible for the terraforming. Her working conditions include bomb threats, sabotage, clashes with her employers ...and a mission to a world adrift between the stars which harbours a life form unlike anything humanity has ever seen. Ultimately, she will be part of a life and death struggle which will test not just her capabilities, but also her character.

From Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment in the popular The Academy series—Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins discovers an interstellar message from a highly advanced race that could be her last chance for a mission before the program is shut down for good. Hutch has been the Academy’s best pilot for decades. She’s had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one’s lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar pilot with little to do, until a message from an alien race arrives. The message is a piece of music from an unexplored area. Despite the fact that this alien race could pose a great danger and that this message could have taken several thousand years to travel, the program prepares the last interstellar ship for the journey. As the paranoia grows, Hutch and her crew make an early escape—but what they find at the other end of the galaxy is completely unexpected.

To overcome humankind's waning interest in interstellar travel, a special deep space mission is sent to uncover the truth about "moonriders," strange lights witnessed in nearby systems, but the team soon discovers that their mission has become far more dangerous when they stumble upon the perilous truth about the moonriders. Reprint.