Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology . Most of his books follow either superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins or galactic relic hunters Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath. McDevitt has received numerous nominations for Hugo , Nebula , and John W. Campbell awards. Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel .
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140-574: A 1996 novel retelling the Russian folk tale, by Mercedes Lackey Firebird (Tyers novel) , a 1986 science fiction novel by Kathy Tyers Firebird , a 2011 science fiction novel by Jack McDevitt Firebirds (anthology) , a 2003 collection of short stories for young adults by Firebird Books Firebird (Marvel Comics) , a Marvel Comics character Firebird, comic book character from JLX , published by Amalgam Comics, see list of Amalgam Comics characters Firebird Books , an imprint of Penguin launched in 2002 Firebird (Pirotta picture book) ,
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196-525: A 2010/2014 picture book by Saviour Pirotta and Catherine Hyde Software [ edit ] Firebird (database server) , a relational database management system Firebird, a video game label formerly owned by Telecomsoft Hi no Tori , known as Firebird in Europe, a computer game developed by Konami Japan in 1987 Mozilla Firebird , former name of the Mozilla Firefox browser Firebird BBS , one of two main telnet-based systems developed in Taiwan Firebirds (video game) , computer game for
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476-516: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jack McDevitt McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. McDevitt went to La Salle University , where a short story of his won the annual Freshman Short Story Contest and was published in the school's literary magazine, Four Quarters . As McDevitt explained in an interview: I
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#1732845129413616-588: The department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University . The novel Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel , given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America . He has been nominated for the Nebula Award sixteen times; Seeker is his only win. With The Engines of God (1994), McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifacts by
644-500: The reader want to see their story as much as the main plot of the book. While slightly annoying, this is, I've decided, a strength of McDevitt's writing since it shows the depth of his created worlds. The short stories "Melville on Iapetus" (1983), "Promises to Keep" (1984), "Oculus" (2002), "The Big Downtown" (2005), "Kaminsky at War" (2006), "Maiden Voyage" (2012), "Waiting at the Altar" (2012), and "The Cat's Pajamas" (2012) are also set in
672-409: The reader's very able imagination." The SF Site 's Steven H Silver has written about this: McDevitt has a (probably unintentional) tendency to give the impression that his novels will go in one direction and then take them in a different direction. Or possibly his background is so well thought out, that throw away lines, or subplots, or minor characters, have enough information behind them to make
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756-655: The time humans arrive on the scene. The main character of The Engines of God , pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in seven more books, Deepsix (2001), Chindi (2002), Omega (2003), Odyssey (2006), Cauldron (2007), StarHawk (2013), and The Long Sunset (2018). The mystery surrounding the destructive "Omega Clouds" (which are introduced in The Engines of God ) is left unexplored until Omega . McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer. He prefers to leave ambiguities to puzzle and intrigue his readers: "Some things are best left to
784-636: Was on my way. Then I read David Copperfield and realized I could never write at that level, and therefore I should find something else to do. I joined the Navy , drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a customs inspector's job on the northern border , and didn't write another word for a quarter-century. McDevitt received a master's degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. As of 2007 , McDevitt lives near Brunswick , Georgia. In 2005, he donated his archive to
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