With Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to investigate the provenance of the cup. Alex and 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.
Seeker: Alex Benedict Series, Book 3
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"'Why read Jack McDevitt?' The question should be: 'Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isn't reading McDevitt'"? - Harlan Ellison
"Superb storytelling." - Library Journal
"Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-colony theme. The novel delivers everything it promises with a gigantic wallop." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Perhaps the best pure storyteller working in the field today." - Washington Post Book World
"Superb storytelling." - Library Journal
"Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-colony theme. The novel delivers everything it promises with a gigantic wallop." - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
"Perhaps the best pure storyteller working in the field today." - Washington Post Book World
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Jack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. He is a multiple Nebula Award finalist who lives in Georgia with his wife Maureen.
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Von Roland Geiger
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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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Von Oliver Panzer
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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.
Von S. Stevenson
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I read this book without the other two earlier, and never had the feeling that something was missing. The story builds nicely, and if you like people hunting for clues in strange places, you really like this book. There is one spot in the book where the tension seems gone and the plot flounders for a moment (which is why I'm only giving four stars), but all together, it was well worth my while -- in fact, I stayed up too late reading it from cover to cover. Recommended.
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Nothing ever changes ...
... 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... 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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