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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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 14, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Apr 16, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Mar 15, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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
- Nov 14, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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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