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Novels by Jack McDevitt (Study Guide): A Talent for War, the Hercules Text, Ancient Shores, Seeker, Odyssey, Polaris, Standard Candles, Chindi

Novels by Jack McDevitt (Study Guide): A Talent for War, the Hercules Text, Ancient Shores, Seeker, Odyssey, Polaris, Standard Candles, Chindi


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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: A Talent for War, the Hercules Text, Ancient Shores, Seeker, Odyssey, Polaris, Standard Candles, Chindi, Infinity Beach, Omega. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: A Talent for War is a science fiction and mystery novel by Jack McDevitt, the story of a search by Alex Benedict, the protagonist, to discover the nature of a mysterious project Alex's uncle had been working on at the time of his death. This investigation leads deep into the history of a war between human civilization and a neighboring alien civilization and challenges the foundation mythos of the current human government. The story is set in our universe approximately 9,600 years in the future (approximately 11,600 C.E.). As is made clearer in McDevitt's later Alex Benedict novel Seeker, during the course of recorded history, human civilization has spread through a substantial part of the Orion Arm of our galaxy. The novel is concerned with two time periods the present of the principal viewpoint character, Alex Benedict, and a period approximately 200 years before his time, which is viewed through back-story. In the millennia since Neil Armstrong, McDevitt tells us, humanity discovered the ruins of one alien technological civilization, and encountered one that at the time of the story is alive and thriving, the Ashiyyur. The sphere of Ashiyyur worlds is described by the author as abutting the worlds of human civilization along the Perimeter first contact was made at least several hundred years before the time in which the back-story is set. McDevitt conceives the Ashiyyur as being at approximately the same technological level as humans, and in fact humanoid bi-laterally symmetrical, bipedal, larger than average for human, of two genders, descended from pred...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=957855


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156189351
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 44
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 77 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156189357
  • Publisher Date: 14 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Talent for War, the Hercules Text, Ancient Shores, Seeker, Odyssey, Polaris, Standard Candles, Chindi
  • Width: 229 mm


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