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Cauldron Makes Final Nebula Ballot
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Events and Publications
- Jack McDevitt's Journal, #14, March 31, 2008
- Analog says of Cauldron: "McDevitt is ... quite thoughtful and he has not forgotten how to give us a good read. So don't let this one slip past you."
- Jack's story "Indomitable" is now available in Baen's Universe, April 2008. (Subscription required)
- Excerpt from "Never Despair," by Jack McDevitt, in Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, ed. John Joseph Adams.
- Sideways in Crime, ed. Lou Anders, includes "The Adventure of the Southsea Trunk" by Jack McDevitt. Solaris Books, June 2008.
- Short-short "The Candidate" is included in Futures from Nature, edited by Henry Gee.
- Website featured story: "Auld Lang Boom."
- Easton Press has released a leatherbound edition of Cauldron (November 2007)
- A new story, "Friends in High Places," appears in A Cross of Centuries, ed. by Michael Bishop, Thundersmouth Press, May 2007
- McDevitt at Books on Board: Seeker in ebook format
- Upcoming Appearances:
- April 4-6, 2008: Willycon 10, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska (GOH)
- Saturday, October 25, 2008: Georgia Literary Festival, Bainbridge, GA
- Outbound makes Locus's Recommended Reading List for Collections.
- John Joseph Adams interviews Jack McDevitt at Science Fiction Weekly
- Odyssey is on Library Journal's list of best SF of the year, as well as Kansas City Star's List of Noteworthy Books for 2006.
- Preview: Academy Series concludes with Cauldron
- Chindi ebook from fictionwise.com
- Forbidden Planets, edited by Marvin Kaye from SFBC. Novellas by Alan Dean Foster, Allen M. Steele, Julie E. Czerneda, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, and McDevitt. The McDevitt novella, "Kaminsky at War," is set in Priscilla Hutchins' Academy universe.
- Ships in the Night, a new collection from Altair Australia.
- Autographed copies of Seeker and several paperback titles are available at the Jacksonville University book store, in Jacksonville, FL. Call 904-256-7500 or email dcobb@ju.edu
- Polaris in ebook form from fictionwise.com
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Now Available:
Outbound Odyssey
The Author Comments: Odyssey
Introduction to Odyssey
Prolog
Reviews for Odyssey
"McDevitt's imaginative world stretches between the poles of Home and Out There -- and as strange and wonderful and terrifying as Out There can be, Home is where his heart is."— Locus
"...Not everything is what it seems.... Recommended."— Analog
"...McDevitt's writing is crisp and flowing, leaving no plot line twisting in the wind...."— Florida Times Union
More Reviews
The Author Comments: Outbound
Reviews for Outbound:
"...We read (in these stories) the humanity behind the hard SF. A humanity expressed in the anti-war stance of "Valkyrie" or "Date with Destiny," in the religious doubts implicit in "Act of God" and "Ignition," in the political skepticism of "The Candidate" and the scientific skepticism of "Henry James, This One's for You." These are, perhaps, old-fashioned virtues just as McDevitt's craftsmanship is of the old-fashioned kind, but in the end there is nothing old-fashioned about these stories, or the impact they achieve."— The NY Review of SF
"The last section of Outbound contains essays on the writing of science fiction and its place in the world. Especially useful for aspiring writers of SF is "Blundering Through" a point-by-point guide to the mistakes every writer should avoid, along with some advice about how to do it right. It's a professional seminar in writing condensed into seventeen highly informative pages.... While McDevitt's prose style may not go for flash and dazzle, there will always be an interesting idea to puzzle over and a story that entices the reader into caring. By McDevitt's own statements, that's the standard that science fiction demands of its practitioners, and it's one that Jack McDevitt lives up to very very well."— Greg L. Johnson
The SF Site
"Sixteen stories...all of them well worth your attention....If you see a new book with his name on the cover, grab it. You're not likely to be disappointed."— Analog
"McDevitt's work is what the Golden Age Renaissance is all about. It's got deep space settings and perilous situations, but it's peopled by three-dimensional characters and more monsters from the id than from the stars.... It's a pity that ISFiC Press is only running off a thousand copies."— Ernest Lilley
SFRevu
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Here and There
- Jack McDevitt at Speculation Speakers
- Guest link: "Gregory Benford, Sunborn, and the Greenhouse Issue."
- Jack McDevitt is currently participating in the Internet Book Database of Fiction online forum
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Recent Publications
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Sequence of Titles
The Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins novels
(The Academy Novels)
Alex Benedict
- A Talent for War
- Polaris
- Seeker
- The Devil's Eye
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Jack McDevitt...
Photo by Maureen McDevitt
...is a former English teacher, naval officer, Philadelphia taxi driver, customs officer, and motivational trainer. With the nominations of Infinity Beach, Ancient Shores, “Time Travelers Never Die,” Moonfall, “Good Intentions” (cowritten with Stanley Schmidt), “Nothing Ever Happens in Rock City,” Chindi, Omega, and Polaris,, "Henry James, This One's for You," and Seeker, his work has been on the final Nebula ballot ten of the last eleven years.
His first novel, The Hercules Text, was published in the celebrated Ace Specials series, and won the Philip K. Dick Special Award. In 1991, he won the first $10,000 UPC International Prize for his novella “Ships in the Night.” The Engines of God was a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and his novella “Time Travelers Never Die” was nominated for both the Hugo and the Nebula. Omega received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best SF novel, 2003.
McDevitt lives in Georgia with his wife Maureen, where he plays chess, reads mysteries, and eats lunch regularly with his cronies.
At Deepsouthcon 2000, McDevitt was presented with the Phoenix Award for his body of work.
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Seeker
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Polaris
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Outbound
Short story collection
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Hello Out There
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Omega
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Chindi
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Bibliographies
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Calendar
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The Author Comments
- Outbound
- Odyssey
- Seeker
- Polaris
- Omega
- Favorite Movies
- Chindi: Keeping the Channel Open
- Ten Favorite Novels
- DeepSix: "It Pays to Think Ahead"
- "Twelve Blunders" — How Aspiring Writers Get It Wrong
- Hello Out There: Foreword to the Meisha Merlin edition
- Infinity Beach: "Empty Skies"
- Eternity Road: "Ghosts"
- Moonfall: "Incoming"
- Ancient Shores: "Strange Places"
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Fiction Available Online or in Electronic Form
- Website Featured Story: "Auld Lang Boom"
- "Tweak," Baen's Universe, October, 2007. (Subscription required)
- Breach the Hull, including "Cryptic" and "Black to Move."
- Fictionwise ebook: Cauldron
- Fictionwise ebook: Odyssey
- Fictionwise ebook: Seeker Nebula Winner!
- Excerpt from Seeker: Chapter 14
- Fictionwise ebook: Chindi
- Excerpt from Chindi: Prolog
- Fictionwise ebook: Omega
- Excerpt from Omega: Chapter 1
- Fictionwise ebook: Polaris
- "Cryptic," in Gedanken Fictions, ed. Thomas A. Easton
- Gedanken Fictions Table of Contents
- Deepsix: Chapter 3
- Infinity Beach: Chapter 1
- Moonfall: Excerpt
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Jack McDevitt's Journal
- August 29, 2007
- September 4, 2007
- September 18, 2007
- October 4, 2007
- October 21, 2007
- November 7, 2007
- December 5, 2007
- December 18, 2007
- December 30, 2007
- January 26, 2008
- February 12, 2008
- February 29, 2008
- March 17, 2008
- March 31, 2008
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