Jack McDevitt

"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...

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...

Farmer Tom Lasker digs up an odd boat in the middle of his North Dakota wheat field, leading to further exploration that yields a mysterious buried structure which serves as a portal to another world.

Dr. Kimberly Brandywine, not satisfied with the accepted knowledge that the only living things in the universe are on the Nine Worlds settled by Earthlings, sets out to investigate the mystery of what happened to her sister (and clone) Emily, who disappeared, along with an entire village, in an unexplained explosion.

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.

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 27: July 2017 Mike Resnick, Editor Taylor Morris, Copyeditor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Stephen Lawson, J.P. Sullivan, Jody Lynn Nye, Edward M. Lerner, Rachelle Harp, Lou J Berger, Michael Swanwick, Leena Likitalo, Paul Di Filippo, Kay Kenyon, Gregor Hartmann, Gordon Eklund, Jack McDevitt Serialization: Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski Columns by: Robert J. Sawyer, Gregory Benford Recommended...

The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the nationally bestselling author of Coming Home-now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of the galaxy a message is being sent. The continuous beats of a pulsar have become odd, irregular . . . artificial. It can only be a code. Frantically, a research team struggles to decipher the alien communication....

Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath return from vacation to their home base on Rimway to find that celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who had sent a cryptic message requesting their help, has asked for and received a mind wipe after transferring an enormous sum of money to Alex's account, and the duo sets out to discover what they have been paid to investigate.

"Somewhat sentient, the omega clouds obliterate life on every planet in their path. Now one of them is predicted to reach Earth in about 900 years. But between Earth and the cloud, lies the home world of the Korbikkan race. They are humanoid sentients and one of three sentient races known to humanity. Now, mankind must decide whether to marshall the science resources needed and to bring to bear the weaponry needed to save another race without putting...