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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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Jack McDevitt
- Sep 29, 2020
- 1 min
Blog #65
Subterranean released A Voice in the Night, a short fiction collection in a limited edition two years ago. It remains available as an...
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Jack McDevitt
- Sep 14, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #64
In 1940, science fiction showed up in my life in a Flash Gordon movie serial. I moved on to the books and magazines a few years later as...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #63
People die every night on the streets. This is clearly not quite the nation the Founding Fathers intended to create for us. And yes, I...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 15, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #62
Cryptic and A Voice in the Night, the two Subterranean short fiction collections, still draw comments. A few readers have asked whether...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jul 28, 2020
- 1 min
Blog #61
Black Lives Matter. It shouldn't come as a shock to us that all lives matter. Generally we define the primary principle of the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #59
When I was in high school I submitted a story to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. I had high hopes, but it got rejected. The...
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