- Gebundene Ausgabe: 368 Seiten
- Verlag: Ace Hardcover (1. November 2005)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0441013295
- ISBN-13: 978-0441013296
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,1 x 13,7 x 3 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (5 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 607.208 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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McDevitt's latest gripping novel of future history begins in the late twentieth century, when a technological breakthrough costs the lives of its discoverers. Then it jumps seven centuries forward, to the beginning of interstellar flight and some of the first refugees from Earth. Finally, it moves into the very far future and to the seeker of the title, one of several looking for inhabited worlds that are the results, however longterm, of events recorded earlier. McDevitt is now being compared, quite legitimately, to Arthur C. Clarke, and not only because he has a similar kind of grand vision of the human future among the stars. He also has characters with amiable, or not-so-amiable, quirks, who in the middle of deciphering the secrets of lost races take time to worry about where to get a good meal in the next town. One of these days McDevitt is going to receive an actual and well-deserved big award to go with his professional stature. Roland Green
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker-strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger.
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After reading A Talent for War - one of the best novels I ever read, especially as I'm very much interested in "real" history - and then Polaris whose end was somehow disappointing to me I wondered what Jack McDevitt would bring in his third book of the Benedict-series. Well, I started on Saturday afternoon and finished on Sunday night and couldn't stop reading at all. It begins with a small cup with fancy letters on it (well, Latin alphabet style in a dead language called "English" spoken about 9,000 years ago) and ends with tracing a riddle half as old as written human history. And leads the reader throughout the known universe. When I came to the chapter where Chase visits the Earth, it was like coming home, not only for her.
McDevitt doesn't rely much on the fore-going novels to keep this as independend as possible. I realized this as I was astonished that the Ashiiyur didn't pick memories of the fight between the Corsarius and that Mute cruizer in the last chapter of "A Talent for War" when Chase visits them in this book. Alex Benedict gets bad reputation by "serious" archeologists and no is interested that he once brought back the quantum drive to the Federation.
I suggest "Ancient Shores", "A Talent for War" and "Omega" will always be my favorites but nevertheless "Seeker" is one of the best novels I have read for years. And I hope the German translation will come soon so I can check what I have missed now. Absolut zu empfehlen.
McDevitt doesn't rely much on the fore-going novels to keep this as independend as possible. I realized this as I was astonished that the Ashiiyur didn't pick memories of the fight between the Corsarius and that Mute cruizer in the last chapter of "A Talent for War" when Chase visits them in this book. Alex Benedict gets bad reputation by "serious" archeologists and no is interested that he once brought back the quantum drive to the Federation.
I suggest "Ancient Shores", "A Talent for War" and "Omega" will always be my favorites but nevertheless "Seeker" is one of the best novels I have read for years. And I hope the German translation will come soon so I can check what I have missed now. Absolut zu empfehlen.
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"Seeker" is the third novel with protagonists Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath (the others being "A talent for war" and "Polaris"). The novels are only loosely related and can be read single. Since there would be one mayor spoiler in reading this book first, I would recommend to read them in order, although I liked the "Seeker" best of all three.
Benedict is a mixture of Fandorin and Indiana-Jones: an upper-market antiques-trader, who searches for new merchandise tracking long-lost starships and space-colonies. Kolpath is his loyal pilot, occasional spy, and skilful operative. In "Seeker" a seemingly harmless deal develops into a search for a colony, lost since 9000 years. The search involves a long trip of Kolpath into the systems of the "Mute", the only other sentient species in the known universe, and it culminates in tragic and fantastic discoveries and a deadly & surprising confrontation.
"Seeker" as "A talent for war" and "Polaris" is a fast paced mixture of thriller and adventure novel in a SF setting. The plot is interesting, well developed, and exciting. The story includes a few side plots, the universe is very coherent, and the characters are very nicely introduced and build. McDevit does not dwell on lenghty descriptions of technology, socio-political constructs, or space-battles - his strength is to tell a good suspenseful story.
I like the series and recommend all three novels: the main themes are classical, the characters are well done, the plots are thrilling and the science-fiction elements (some of them quite novel) are introduced in an unobtrusive way, never hampering the flow of the story. Those, who know the first volumes are in for a little shock in the end.
This is a very nice to read, good SF-thriller/adventure story.
Benedict is a mixture of Fandorin and Indiana-Jones: an upper-market antiques-trader, who searches for new merchandise tracking long-lost starships and space-colonies. Kolpath is his loyal pilot, occasional spy, and skilful operative. In "Seeker" a seemingly harmless deal develops into a search for a colony, lost since 9000 years. The search involves a long trip of Kolpath into the systems of the "Mute", the only other sentient species in the known universe, and it culminates in tragic and fantastic discoveries and a deadly & surprising confrontation.
"Seeker" as "A talent for war" and "Polaris" is a fast paced mixture of thriller and adventure novel in a SF setting. The plot is interesting, well developed, and exciting. The story includes a few side plots, the universe is very coherent, and the characters are very nicely introduced and build. McDevit does not dwell on lenghty descriptions of technology, socio-political constructs, or space-battles - his strength is to tell a good suspenseful story.
I like the series and recommend all three novels: the main themes are classical, the characters are well done, the plots are thrilling and the science-fiction elements (some of them quite novel) are introduced in an unobtrusive way, never hampering the flow of the story. Those, who know the first volumes are in for a little shock in the end.
This is a very nice to read, good SF-thriller/adventure story.
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... or so it seems in Jack McDevitt's novel "Seeker".
McDevitt would like the reader to believe that after more than 9000 years society basically will remain the same as it is now. That is, people will have names like "Alex Benedict", go to cocktail parties, pay with money and altogether talk, feel and behave no different than they do today.
The fact that society in a future 9000 years from now is virtually indistinguishable from ours today in the way people deal with each other, betrays a serious lack of imagination from the author. This impression is only compounded by the fact that there are artificial intelligences, faster than light travel and an extraterrestrial civilization.
McDevitt may be a great author of contemporary fiction, or crime, or suspense, or any other genre. A science fiction writer he is not.
To those of you who would like to see how it can be done better: Go and check out e.g. Neal Stephenson or Vernor Vinge.
McDevitt would like the reader to believe that after more than 9000 years society basically will remain the same as it is now. That is, people will have names like "Alex Benedict", go to cocktail parties, pay with money and altogether talk, feel and behave no different than they do today.
The fact that society in a future 9000 years from now is virtually indistinguishable from ours today in the way people deal with each other, betrays a serious lack of imagination from the author. This impression is only compounded by the fact that there are artificial intelligences, faster than light travel and an extraterrestrial civilization.
McDevitt may be a great author of contemporary fiction, or crime, or suspense, or any other genre. A science fiction writer he is not.
To those of you who would like to see how it can be done better: Go and check out e.g. Neal Stephenson or Vernor Vinge.
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Great in its own right
I read this book without the other two earlier, and never had the feeling that something was missing. Lesen Sie weiter...
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We shall meet again
It was an entertaining story but I take away two stars.
I found myself pondering on the probability of the scientific aspects more than once and the story left me behind with... Lesen Sie weiter...
I found myself pondering on the probability of the scientific aspects more than once and the story left me behind with... Lesen Sie weiter...
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