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Standard Candles by Jack McDevitt | ||||
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![]() Standard Candles is a strong, strong collection. - Cemetery Dance Always engaging and insightful, McDevitt can be counted on to ask the deep questions. - David Brin Jack McDevitt is one of those rare science fiction writers capable of taking the tropes of the field - from war and the military to alien contact to scripture vs. science - and breathing wonderful life into them. He's always a pleasure to read. - Gregory Frost It's not McDevitt's style, though his prose is wonderfully clear and deceptively simple. It's not his plots, though his stories always ask hard questions, and never settle for easy answers. For me it's his humanity. McDevitt understands the way people talk and think and behave, and still somehow has boundless compassion for the human animal. - Lewis Shiner In both his novels and his short fiction, Jack McDevitt has shown a terrific range of skills and imagination and speculation. Only one thing remains the same from piece to piece to piece - they're all damn fine stories. - Kevin J. Anderson Jack McDevitt is a master of the short story form. - Kathleen Ann Goonan The ideal writer can stretch your mind with a wonderful concept while also touching your heart with a personal story. Most of us fail at one or the other, but from the very beginning of his career Jack McDevitt has shown that he can do both. - Michael Cassutt You hold in your hand some of the best work of one of our best writers. Enjoy! - James Patrick Kelly McDevitt is the real thing: a writer with depth, integrating scientific issues with human concerns on a vast stage, lit by vivid colors. - Gregory Benford Jack McDevitt is one of the few authors in contemporary science Þction whose work moves faultlessly from scientiÞc speculation to speculations on the nature of reality and the human condition. McDevitt fashions fully realized worlds, rich in imagination, peopled by fully believable characters. More important, you can count on him for a damn Þne read. - Bruce Boston It's high time indeed for a Jack McDevitt story collection! McDevitt writes with wisdom, compassion, and an abiding sense of wonder - everything that has drawn me again and again to the worlds of science Þction - real people with real concerns, in extraordinary settings. If you haven't read this man's work, start now! - Jeffrey A. Carver Long after you've closed this book, the stories will stay in your mind and in your heart. - Karen Joy Fowler ![]() ![]() ![]() - Analog ![]() ![]() | |
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![]() The Hercules Text (1986) A Talent for War (1989) Engines of God (1994) (recommended) Ancient Shores (1996) Standard Candles (1996) (recommended) Eternity Road (1997) Moonfall (1998) News Jack McDevitt's Eternity Road won the 1998 Darrell Award for the Best MidSouth novel. The Darrell is sponsored by the Memphis Science Fiction Association and is named honor of Dr. Darrell C. Richardson, a member of First Fandom. "Time Travelers Never Die" placed second in the Hugo balloting for best novella last year in San Antonio, losing out by a mere six votes to what was essentially a novel excerpt from George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones. We like to think of it as the best story, published at that length, of 1996. ![]() ![]() | |
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