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
Sep 14, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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 30, 20202 min read
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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Jack McDevitt
Jun 15, 20201 min read
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
Jun 1, 20202 min read
Blog #57
I had a twenty-year career in law enforcement with the Customs Service. As far as I could tell, Customs officers only made the headlines...
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Jack McDevitt
May 15, 20201 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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
Mar 15, 20201 min read
Blog #52
My dad took me into center city Philadelphia to the Mastbaum Theater one evening in the mid-1940s to watch “Wonder Man,” a comedy...
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Jack McDevitt
Feb 29, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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
Feb 2, 20202 min read
Blog #49
I don’t think I’ve ever met a reader who hasn’t mentioned an inclination, or a flat-out determination to become a science fiction writer....
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Jack McDevitt
Jan 14, 20202 min read
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, 20192 min read
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, 20192 min read
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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