Jack McDevitt
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
- 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
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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
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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
- Jul 15, 2020
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Blog #60
The prime objective for an English teacher is not to teach reading, but to create a passion for it. Textbooks for English classes tend to...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jun 15, 2020
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Blog #58
I recently finished Marie Benedict’s novel The Other Einstein, which delivered more surprises than anything else I’ve read. The person...
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Jack McDevitt
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
Blog 56
We can’t turn on the TV anymore without being subjected to leadership gone astray at the highest levels. I’ve been fortunate during my...
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Jack McDevitt
- May 1, 2020
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Blog #55
Despite attempts to reopen the country, we may be stuck for a long while in our present maintaining-space condition. One of the more...
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Jack McDevitt
- Apr 15, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #54
The world is overwhelmed by the Coronavirus to a degree that no other topic is significant. I’m currently reading The Sun Also Rises and...
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Jack McDevitt
- Mar 28, 2020
- 1 min
Merry McDevitt
Our daughter Meredith passed away yesterday after a long struggle. Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be in pain at the end. We’re indebted...
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Jack McDevitt
- Feb 29, 2020
- 1 min
Blog #51
Neil DeGrasse Tyson published Letters from an Astrophysicist last year. It’s a collection of questions and comments posed to Tyson by...
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Jack McDevitt
- Feb 14, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #50
Mitt Romney made history last week. He is the only senator in U.S. history to vote against party lines to convict an impeached president....
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Jack McDevitt
- Jan 14, 2020
- 2 min
Blog #48
I just finished Charles Gannon’s Marque of Caine. It’s a wild ride through alternate universes and star systems controlled by a variety...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 30, 2019
- 2 min
Blog #47
Christmas always arrives with intriguing gifts, jigsaw puzzles, communication devices, Eagles sweaters. Most interesting, usually, are...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 14, 2019
- 2 min
Blog#46
People ask: “Where do you get your ideas for science fiction stories?” Harlan Ellison’s famous answer was ‘Sheboygan.’ I suspect, if...
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