The Best of Defending the Future

Science Fiction

Oct-2016

The embers of War still glow as memories of strange skies over an alien landscape, light-years from home, bring back the sensations of battle; a time when personal sacrifice meant the difference between salvation for all, or total destruction. Gather...

Thunderbird

Science Fiction

Dec-2015

Ancient Shores - 2

The Nebula Award-winning author of the Alex Benedict novels and the Priscilla Hutchins novels returns to the world of Ancient Shores in a startling and majestic epic. A working stargate dating back more than ten thousand years has been discovered ...

Coming Home

Science Fiction

Nov-2014

An Alex Benedict Novel - 7

Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tant...

Starhawk

Science Fiction

Nov-2013

A Priscilla Hutchins Novel - 1

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences. This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure... Priscilla "Hutch” Hutchins has finally realized her lifelong dream: She’s completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for a pi...

Going Interstellar

Science Fiction

Jun-2012

Essays by space scientists and engineers teamed with a collection of tales by an all-star assortment of award winning authors all taking on new methods of star travel. Some humans may be content staying in one place, but many of us are curious abo...

Armored

Space Opera

Apr-2012

Armor up for a metal-pounding feast of action, adventure and amazing speculation by topnotch writers (including Nebula-award winner Jack McDevitt, Sean Williams, Dan Abnet, Simon Green, and Jack Campbell) on a future warrior that might very well be j...

Firebird

Science Fiction

Nov-2011

An Alex Benedict Novel - 6

Forty-one years ago the renowned physicist Chris Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath dis...

Cryptic: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt

General Fiction

Jan-2011

Jack McDevitt loves a good mystery. And he enjoys baffling his readers with enigmas like why, after so many years of listening with no results, would a SETI director hear an artificial signal and keep it quiet? Why might an astronomer at a space stat...

Echo

Science Fiction

Nov-2010

An Alex Benedict Novel - 5

Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle's onetime lover, and antiquities dealer...

Time Travelers Never Die

Science Fiction

Nov-2009

When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he had constructed a time travel device. Fearing his father may be stranded in time-or worse-Shel enlists the aid of Dave MacElroy, a linguist, to accompany him on th...

Crypic

Fantasy

Mar-2009

The Devil's Eye

Science Fiction

Nov-2008

An Alex Benedict Novel - 4

Alex Benedict, interstellar antiquities dealer, and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, are on vacation when they receive a cryptic message from Celebrated writer Vicki Greene, whom neither has ever met, asking for help. But when they return home, Alex dis...

Cauldron

Science Fiction

Nov-2007

The Academy - 6

By 2255, the age of starflight is over. The Academy of Science and Technology is long closed, and the only efforts at space exploration are carried on by privately funded foundations. However, physicist Jon Silvestri insists that an abandoned prototy...

Outbound

Science Fiction

Dec-2006

Odyssey

Science Fiction

Nov-2006

The Academy - 5

To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about "moonriders," the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But the team soon discovers that their odyssey is no mere public-rel...

Seeker

Science Fiction

Nov-2005

An Alex Benedict Novel - 3

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 assi...

Polaris

Science Fiction

Nov-2004

An Alex Benedict Novel - 2

Sixty years ago, the space yacht Polaris was found deserted, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery. Now, to mark the anniversary of the disappearance, there is to be an auction of what was left behind on the ship. Using his insider knowledge...

Omega

Science Fiction

Nov-2003

The Academy - 4

A civilization-destroying omega cloud has switched direction, heading straight for a previously unexplored planetary system and its alien society. And suddenly, a handful of brave humans must try to save an entire world without revealing their existe...

Chindi

Science Fiction

Jul-2002

The Academy - 3

The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the...

Deepsix

Science Fiction

Mar-2001

The Academy - 2

In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With ...

Hello Out There

Science Fiction

Jul-2000

Here, together in a single volume, are the two novels that launched Jack McDevitt's reputation as a writer of suspenseful, thoughtful, sense-of-wonder science fiction. Hello, Out There contains The Hercules Text, winner of the 1986 Philip K. Dick Sp...

Infinity Beach

Science Fiction

Feb-2000

We are alone. That is the verdict, after centuries of Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence missions and space exploration. The only living things in the Universe are found on the Nine Worlds settled from Earth, and the starships that knit them t...

Moonfall

Fantasy

Apr-1998

In five days, comet Tomiko will shatter the moon. Huge chunks will rain down on the Earth, causing continent-wide fires, killer storms, and tidal waves as tall as mountain ranges. Five days to save a world. Five nightmare days for the reluctant...

Eternity Road

Fantasy

May-1997

FROM THE ASHES OF THE OLD WORLD The Roadmakers left only ruins behind--but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent. Their cups, combs, and jewelry are found in every Illyrian home. They left behind a legend, too--...

Ancient Shores

Science Fiction

Apr-1996

Ancient Shores - 1

They opened the door to another Universe It turned up in a North Dakota wheat field: a triangle, like a shark's fin, sticking up from the black loam. Tom Lasker did what any farmer would have done. He dug it up. And discovered a boat, made of a fi...

The Engines of God

Science Fiction

Oct-1994

The Academy - 1

Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic -- is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth,...

A Talent for War

Science Fiction

Feb-1989

An Alex Benedict Novel - 1

Everryone knew the legend of Christopher Sim. Fighter. Leader. An interstellar hero with a rare talent for war, Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a ragtag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the back of the alien Ashiyyur. ...

The Hercules Text

Science Fiction

Nov-1986

The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of "Coming Home" now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of the galaxy a mess...