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Hutch returns in "Waiting at the Altar" in the June Asimov's. Now on sale.
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February 20: Firebird nominated for the 2012 Nebula.
Hutch is back also in "The Cat's Pajamas," a story in Armored, a new John Joseph Adams anthology. More information, and some sample stories, can be found at
http://johnjosephadams.com/armored
A Fan Page has been started on Facebook by Jeff Huffman. For those interested the website is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jack-McDevitt-Fan-Club/34574565661?ref=nf
Links to interviews with Jack can be found at
WritingRaw http://writingraw.com/files/7%20Question%20Interview%20with%20Jack%20McDevitt.pdf
...and at SF Signal http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2011/11/sffwrtcht-an-interview-with-jack-mcdevitt/
...and at the SFWA site, an interview with John Ottinger III
http://www.sfwa.org/2011/12/nebula-awards-interview-jack-mcdevitt
Audible news: Firebird, narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck, is now available.
http://www.audible.com/search/ref=sr_lftbox_1_1
Tantor has released a revised recording of Echo. It is narrated by Coleen Marlo.
http://www.tantor.com/advSearch.asp?FRM=basicSearch
Firebird
Jack's newest novel, Firebird, is now available in bookstores.
"If you love reading good sci-fi; and you haven't read a Jack McDevitt book, you're really missing out." ---Wired
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/a-real-sci-fi-mystery-in-firebird/
Firebird is a real page turner and strongly recommended.
--San Fransisco/Sacramento Book Review
The Benedict stories are really more who dunits set in a star-faring future than space opera. Though I enjoy both of these forms quite well, this thoughtful armchair exploration is every bit as enjoyable, or maybe even more so.
--SF Revu
McDevitt's sixth far-future mystery featuring Alex and Chase delivers a complex and attention-grabbing puzzle that should please fans.
--Library Journal
With Firebird, McDevitt again puts a human face on the pursuit of scientific discovery and shows us that he can thrill us, touch us and make us think ---all at the same time.
--Jesup Press Sentinel
Alex Benedict's antique business --and the series' plot machines-- require a deep history full of mysteries, anomalies, and vanishings,and outside the living rooms and offices and cafes, out beyond the orbital docks in the galactic deeps, there are marvels and monsters and Mystery, so maybe a cozy and familiar foreground is a necessary part of the formula. I know it doesn't keep me from coming back for more.
--Locus
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"The Cassandra Project," originally published in Lightspeed, has been selected for inclusion in Year's Best SF 16, edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer.
Echo
Nebula Award Nominee
"Benedict is a thoroughly likable protagonist, and McDevitt imagines the far future with precision and believability.The author's fans and lovers of SF mystery/adventure should enjoy this polished addition to a popular series."
---Library Journal
"Surprises packed inside surprises....effective and moving SF."
---Locus
"An intriguing and clever mystery incorporating all the best parts of space travel, and a puzzle that kept me guessing right up to the final moment. Fans of either genre will approve, and enjoy this blend of science fiction and detective story."
---Fresh Fiction
"Intricately complex... an intriguing look at mankind's future."
---Night Owl Sci-Fi
"20 years from now reviewers will be comparing other writers to McDevitt....This book is highly recommended and sure to be a joy to all who read it."
---SF Review
"I've found another reason to look forward to the autumn: the release of a new Jack Mc Devitt novel. If you've been looking forward to another of Mc Devitt's captivating combinations of big ideas and life-threatening dangers, you'll find that Echo was worth the wait."
---The Press-Sentinel (Jesup, GA)
"Highly recommended. But then I always say that about McDevitt's books."
---SFRevu
"A superb action thriller." ---Genre Go Round Review
Deepsix, Chindi, Cauldron, Omega, Odyssey, The Devil's Eye, A Talent for War, Polaris, and Seeker are currently available on Audible.com.
http://tinyurl.com/ygfvvge
Time Travelers Never Die
"An entertaining romp through past and future, ringing in new changes on the genre. A good, fast readthat leaves you thinking."
---Joe Haldeman, author of Starbound
"[A] witty, charming, yearning novel that puts a new twist on time travel. A first-rate work by one of the true masters of the genre. Enjoy!"
---Robert J. Sawyer, the Hugo Award-winning author of WWW:Wonder
"Believable and realistic...a powerful story full of mystery, romance, and surprises."
---Ben Bova, author of Leviathans of Jupiter
"McDevitt has come up with a new use for a time machine: bringing history to life---and a rollickingadventure with a dash of comedy."
---James Gunn, author of Gift from the Stars
"A masterpiece of storytelling and exploration of the paradoxes of time travel."
---Booklist
Shel and his friend Dave Dryden, a language expert, search for Shel's father in Galileo's Italy, Selma during the civil rights marches and other famous times and places. Realizing that time resists paradoxes and history can't be changed, the two friends seize the opportunity to live enriching, truly humane lives from Thermopylae to a few minutes in the future…. Ingeniously handles a tricky denouement….
---Publishers Weekly
Jack McDevitt has a well-deserved reputation for writing beautifully extrapolated interplanetary and interstellar narratives, but he can do nigh on to anything. Witness Time Travelers Never Die, a novel that romps across dozens of fascinating human eras -- from Socrates in Athens, Greece, to John Lewis and others in Selma, Alabama -- with great panache and a high degree of wizardly credibility. He also manages to tell several intensely human stories that will touch your heart as well as your intellect.
-- Michael Bishop
"Jack McDevitt hits a home run with this witty, charming, yearning novel that puts a new twist on time travel. You can't help but be captivated by Shel and Dave's Excellent Adventure. A first-rate work by one of the true masters of the genre. Enjoy!"
--Robert Sawyer
An audio/cd or mp3/cd is now available from Tantor on Time Travelers Never Die. http://www.tantor.com/BookDetail.asp?Product=1433_TimeTravelers
Fiction Available Online or in Electronic Form (eReader)
http://www.booksonboard.com/index.php?BODY=viewauthor&AUTHOR=McDevitt,%20Jack