Jack McDevitt
Blog #85
Village in the Sky will be released on January 31st.... An exploration starship discovers a village on a distant world. Lights are on,...
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Jack McDevitt
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Blog #84
One of the news channels last week ran a story about a teacher who was trying to convince her students that they were talented. She had...
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Jack McDevitt
Aug 4, 20212 min read
Blog #82 Part II
The reality is that books help us get through pandemics, but the truth is that, in many ways, they simply help make our lives matter. I...
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Jack McDevitt
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Blog #82
There aren’t many good things to be said about the Covid virus, but despite all our complaining about hiding in our homes, it did provide...
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Jack McDevitt
Jul 13, 20212 min read
Blog #81
It’s been a busy year. I spent the first half of it writing Village in the Sky, and the rest of it doing short fiction for Nature,...
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Jack McDevitt
Jun 30, 20211 min read
Blog #80
We have good news from Baen Books: They are reprinting Going Interstellar in trade paper format this fall. The idea for the book came...
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Jack McDevitt
Jun 14, 20211 min read
Blog #79
The media have become crowded with claims of UFO sightings, largely by naval aviators and pilots of civilian transport planes. The...
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Jack McDevitt
May 29, 20211 min read
Blog #78
The Constant Circle is a biography of H.L. Mencken, written by a longtime friend, Sara Mayfield. She was also a close friend of Sara...
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Jack McDevitt
May 16, 20212 min read
Blog #77
In 2011 I met Les Johnson, a NASA executive who, if he’d wanted to, could have put together a successful career as a science fiction...
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Jack McDevitt
May 3, 20212 min read
Blog #76
I discovered Henry Mencken when I was in grade school. It was the late forties and I came across an article about him in Life Magazine....
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Jack McDevitt
Apr 16, 20212 min read
Blog #75
Not So is a book that got lost in my shelves until recently. It’s a collection of popular stories about American history that we’ve all...
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Jack McDevitt
Apr 3, 20212 min read
Blog#74
During my early years, the only comedy films I knew were Abbott & Costello, the Three Stooges, and Stan & Ollie. They were good at what...
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Jack McDevitt
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Blog #73
I learned recently to be careful about making general statements. I’d always been impressed by Ernest Hemingway’s writing. I recall a...
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Jack McDevitt
Mar 4, 20213 min read
Blog #72
A notification arrived yesterday from a longtime friend that blog entries had gone missing over the last few weeks. My first reaction had...
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Jack McDevitt
Jan 21, 20212 min read
Blog #71
McFarland & Co. has just released Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder, by Joe Sanders, a professor emeritus at Lakeland...
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Jack McDevitt
Jan 1, 20211 min read
Blog#70
Back when I was about ten years old, we’d arrived in early December and the days were moving slowly on. My mind was filled with upcoming...
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Jack McDevitt
Dec 2, 20201 min read
Blog #69
Two days ago, we lost a giant. Ben Bova died of a combination of Coronavirus 19, pneumonia, and a stroke. During his long career, he won...
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Jack McDevitt
Nov 14, 20203 min read
Blog #68
I finished the second draft of Uncharted Territory Friday. Normally, Maureen and I would celebrate by going out for dinner and maybe...
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Jack McDevitt
Oct 29, 20201 min read
Blog #67
I owe a thank you to the cast and crew of the starship Farragut. The current issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Nov-Dec, is...
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Jack McDevitt
Oct 12, 20202 min read
Blog #66
I was at a Sunday gathering at my Uncle Roy’s home in Philadelphia in 1941 and was struck when everyone suddenly grew quiet. The radio...
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