New Releases by Jack McDevitt

Dlouhé období politické korektnosti a přehlížení vesmírného programu, především v podobě neustálých vládních škrtů rozpočtu Akademie, muselo nevyhnutelně vést ke katastrofě. Během dálkového skoku hyperprostorem zmizel jeden z přetížených a nedostatečně udržovaných nadsvětelníků, ocitl se mimo rádiové spojení nebo se ztratil v neznámu. Mediální rozruch kolem této události popisuje vesmírný program jako černou díru, ve které mizí peníze daňových poplatníků. Kampaň proti Akademii nevede nikdo jiný než kontroverzní novinářská hvězda Gregory MacAllister. Požaduje ukončení výzkumu a využití prostředků na poslední pokus o záchranu Země před globálním oteplováním. Vedoucí operací Akademie Priscilla Hutch Hutchinsonová podnikne zoufalý pokus přitáhnout zájem veřejnosti k mezihvězdnému cestování. Vysílá misi do hlubokého vesmíru s cílem studovat záhadné černé kulovité kosmické lodě, které byly spatřeny v okolí mnoha výzkumných objektů a oblíbených vesmírných destinací. Let směřuje nejdříve ke prastarému orbitálnímu chrámu nebo tisíce kilometrů dlouhému hyperkolosu, a má se jej zúčastnit i skeptický kritik MacAllister. Vše se změní, když mimozemšťané přesměrují dráhu asteroidu, a ukáže se, že vůbec nejsou tak mírumilovní, jak se zdálo. Zájem lidstva o vesmírný program je rázem na vrcholu. Stejně tak i hrůza z vyhlazení mimozemskými vetřelci ... Jack McDevitt skvěle kombinuje vědecké spekulace a fascinující pocit úžasu nad záhadami, které na nás čekají v nekonečné rozlehlosti vesmíru.

In Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt’s ninth installment in the beloved Alex Benedict science fiction mystery series, humanity discovers new intelligent life lightyears away—only for it to disappear without a trace. Centuries after the war with the Mutes, the first aliens to be encountered by humankind, a startling new discovery in the far reaches of the Orion Nebula appears. On a planet with conditions favorable to life, explorer vessel The Columbia comes across a small town seemingly inhabited by an intelligent species not yet discovered. But when a highly publicized follow-up mission is sent to make contact mere months later, the entire town has vanished, leaving no trace—or such is presumed to be the case until Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew show up to investigate. Officially, their mission is to find concealed artifacts that may have been left behind, but the team’s real goal is to solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly—and why. In turns terrifying and miraculous, the answers raise the stakes for every member on board as they look to make their mark on history. Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt, whom Stephen King has called “the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke,” brings back Alex, Chase, and Gabe for another brilliantly crafted science fiction mystery.

Před dvěma sty lety byl ve vzdálených končinách sluneční soustavy učiněn ohromující objev: obrovská socha mimozemského tvora s nápisem, který se vzpíral všem snahám o rozluštění. S objevem nadsvětelného pohonu se hvězdy přiblížily na dosah, a průzkum odhalil další záhadné artefakty. Jejich rozměry jsou mimo lidská měřítka a každý z nich je krásný zvláštním a provokujícím způsobem. Lidé jejich tvůrce přezdívají "Stavitelé monumentů". Nikdo netuší, kdo to byl, a kam zmizeli, ale je zjevné, že prastará minulost mimozemské civilizace může být úzce svázána s budoucností Země. Planeta Země sama je na pokraji katastrofy – na hledání odpovědí není čas. Dokonce ani na otázku, která může být klíčem k přežití celé lidské rasy...

CODICE HERCULES Da un angolo remoto della galassia viene inviato un messaggio. Gli impulsi di una stella pulsar sono diventati strani, irregolari artificiali. Può essere solo un codice. Freneticamente, un gruppo di ricerca lotta contro il tempo per decifrare la comunicazione aliena. E quello che gli scienziati scoprono è destinato a scuotere dalle fondamenta gli imperi in tutto il mondo, da Wall Street al Vaticano. Un originale romanzo di fantascienza sul primo contatto alieno che ha lanciato la carriera di Jack McDevitt.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and FantasyISSUE 1: MARCH 2013Edited by Mike ResnickStories by: Robert J. Sawyer, Kij Johnson, Jack McDevitt, Stephen Leigh, James Patrick Kelly, Nick DiChario, Lou J. Berger , Alex Shvartsman, Robert T. JeschonekSerialization: Dark Universe by Daniel F. GalouyeColumns by: Barry Malzberg, Horace CocroftBook Reviews: Paul Cook.Galaxy''s Edge is a bi-monthly (every two months) magazine published by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, an award winning independent press based in Maryland. Each issue of the magazine has a mix of new and old (reprint) stories, new columns by Barry Malzberg and Horace Cocroft and book reviews by Paul Cook.

El famoso periodista Gregory MacAllister se ha entregado a una campaña para recortar el presupuesto destinado a la Academia y a sus programas espaciales, a fin de que se centren en cuestiones de índole práctica en la Tierra. Por su parte, la Academia, para reavivar el interés público por la materia, programa una misión para conocer la verdad sobre los «jinetes lunares», las extrañas luces que supuestamente están empezando a verse en sistemas cercanos. Descubrirán que su odisea no es solo una estratagema de relaciones públicas y que no son un fenómeno inofensivo. De hecho, pueden resultar extremadamente peligrosos, hasta un punto que nadie podría haber imaginado jamás.

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure… Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins has finally completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for her pilot’s license. But faster-than-light travel is still a new reality, and the World Space Authority is still learning how to manage long-range missions safely. To make matters worse, efforts to prepare two planets for colonization are killing off native life-forms, outraging people on Earth. With low demand for space pilots, Priscilla finds a job on the bridge of an interstellar ship, working for the corporation that is responsible for the terraforming. Her work conditions include bomb threats, sabotage, clashes with her employers—and a mission to a world, adrift between the stars, that harbors a life-form unlike anything humanity has ever seen...

Famine. Death. War. Pestilence. These are the harbingers of the biblical apocalypse, of the End of the World. In science fiction, the end is triggered by less figurative means: nuclear holocaust, biological warfare/pandemic, ecological disaster, or cosmological cataclysm. But before any catastrophe, there are people who see it coming. During, there are heroes who fight against it. And after, there are the survivors who persevere and try to rebuild. THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH will tell their stories. Edited by acclaimed anthologist John Joseph Adams and bestselling author Hugh Howey, THE APOCALYPSE TRIPTYCH is a series of three anthologies of apocalyptic fiction. THE END IS NIGH focuses on life before the apocalypse. THE END IS NOW turns its attention to life during the apocalypse. And THE END HAS COME focuses on life after the apocalypse. THE END IS NIGH features all-new, never-before-published works by Hugh Howey, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jamie Ford, Seanan McGuire, Tananarive Due, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Sigler, Robin Wasserman, Nancy Kress, Charlie Jane Anders, Ken Liu, and many others.

An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.

''You should definitely read Jack McDevitt'' Gregory Benford Forty-one years ago, renowned physicist Dr. Christopher Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Now his widow has died and Alex Benedict has been asked to handle the auction of the physicist''s artifacts - leading the public to once again speculate on the mystery surrounding Robin''s disappearance. Did he finally find the door between parallel universes that he had long sought? Intrigued, Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath embark on their own investigation as they follow the missing man''s trail into the unknown to uncover the truth - a truth people are willing to kill to protect...

Todo el mundo conoce la leyenda de Christopher Sim, el guerrero, el líder, el héroe interestelar con un talento muy poco común para la guerra. Sim cambió la historia de la humanidad para siempre cuando convirtió a un grupo de marginados en el arma clave para vencer al Ashiyyur. Pero ahora Alex Benedict ha encontrado unos datos sorprendentes en un viejo archivo digital que, de ser ciertos, demostrarían que la historia de Christopher Sim era un fraude. Alex debe seguir el oscuro camino de una leyenda hasta el corazón de una galaxia alienígena, donde descubrirá una verdad más extraña que cualquier ficción imaginable.

Los humanos los llaman los Creadores de Monumentos: una raza desconocida que ha dejado asombrosas y extrañas estatuas en lejanos planetas de la galaxia. Cada reliquia es diferente; cada inscripción desafía la traducción... sin embargo, todas ellas son angustiosamente bellas.

Der Physiker Michael Shelborne ist auf geheimnisvolle Weise verschwunden. Bald darauf entdeckt sein Sohn Shel den Grund dafür: Sein Vater hat eine Zeitmaschine erfunden und ist irgendwo in der Vergangenheit gestrandet. Shel bricht gemeinsam mit seinem Freund Dave zu einer tollkühnen Rettungsmission auf. Die Reise führt sie unter anderem zurück in die italienische Renaissance und den amerikanischen Wilden Westen. Und dann verstößt Shel gegen seine Vereinbarung mit Dave, nicht in die Zukunft zu reisen ...

In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a small scientific team to the surface to glean whatever they can about its lifeforms and lost civilizations before time runs out. But catastrophe awaits when they are stranded on this strange and complex world of puzzles and impossibilities. And now Hutch and her people must somehow survive on a hostile world going rapidly mad -- as the clock ticks toward apocalypse for a doomed enigma now called...

After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.

The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend,too -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found. Chaka''s brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact -- a book called A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur''s Court -- which has inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Gathering an unlikely band of companions around her, Chaka embarks upon a journey where she will encounter bloodthirsty rirver pirates, electronic ghosts who mourn their lost civilization and machines that skim over the ground and air. Ultimately, the group will learn the truth about their own mysterious past.

It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark''s fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fiberglass-like material with an utterly impossible atomic number. What it was doing buried under a dozen feet of prairie soil two thousand miles from any ocean, no one knew. True, Tom Lasker''s wheat field had once been on the shoreline of a great inland sea, but that was a long time ago -- ten thousand years ago. A return to science fiction on a grand scale, reminiscent of the best of Heinlein, Simak, and Clarke, Ancient Shores is the most ambitious and exciting SF triumph of the decade, a bold speculative adventure that does not shrink from the big questions -- and the big answers.

Nebula-winning author of the Alex Benedict series: A woman steals a starship to find her long-lost clone-sister in a "masterly" novel of first contact ( Library Journal). We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them together. Or so it''s believed, until Dr. Kimberly Brandywine sets out to find what happened to her clone-sister Emily, who, after the final unsuccessful manned SETI expedition, disappeared along with the rest of her ship''s crew. Following a few ominous clues, Kim discovers the ship''s log was faked. Something happened out there in the darkness between the stars, and she''s prepared to go to any length to find answers. Even if it means giving up her career . . . stealing a starship . . . losing her lover. Kim is about to discover the truth about her sister—and about more than she ever dared imagine. "Gripping mystery . . . an altogether splendid, satisfying puzzle." — Kirkus Reviews "Will hold readers in thrall." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Exquisitely timed revelations maximize suspense . . . fine characterization and world building." — Booklist

It''s the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems. Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage is about to leave high orbit, with a woman at the helm. Below, the world is marveling at a rare solar eclipse. But all that is right is about to go disastrously wrong when an amateur astronomer discovers a new comet. Named for its discover, Tomikois a "sun-grazer,"an interstellar wanderer with a hundred times the mass and ten times the speed of other comets. And it is headed straight for our moon. In less than five days, if scientists'' predictions are right, Tomiko will crash into the moon, shattering it into a cloud of superheated gas, dust, and huge chunks of rock that will rain down on the earth, causing chaos and killer storms, possibly tidal waves inundating entire cities...or worse: a single apocalyptic worldwide "extinction event." In the meantime, the population of Moonbase must be evacuated by a hastily assembled fleet of shuttle rockets. There isn''t room, or time enough, for everyone. And the vice president, who rashly promised to be last off ("I will lock the door and turn off the lights"), is trying to figure out how to get away without eating his words. In Moonfall,McDevitt has created a disaster thriller of truly epic proportions, featuring a cast of unforgettable characters: the reluctant Russian rocket jockey entrusted with the lives of squabbling refugees; the woman chosen to be first on the moon; the scientist who must deflect the "possum" (POSSible IMpactors) knocked from orbit or witness the end science itself. And at the center of it all is Charlie Haskell, the career politician who discovers his own unexpected reserves of only himself and his country, but for all humankind. Moonfall,is a spellbinding tale of heroism and hope, cowardice and passion played against the awesome spectacle of human history''s darkest night.

Shel and his friend Dave journey through history and time in search of Shel''s missing physicist father, but make a devastating discovery that changes their lives forever when Shel violates their agreement not to visit the future.

A 200,000 word gathering of the best short fiction by Jack McDevitt.

Hired by writer Vicki Greene, interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict discovers that his would-be client now has no memory of her past, and his search for answers takes him to a remote human world that holds the key to a decades-old political confli