![]() ![]() This novel delivers everything it promises with a galactic wallop. The scientific interpolations are as convincing as the far-future planetscapes and human and alien societies, bolstering an irresistible tractor beam of heavy-duty action. Female pilot Chase Kolpath, this book's narrator, gutsily tracks the ancient Seeker on a breathless trek across star systems and through an intriguing mystery plot, a bevy of fully realized characters, ingenious AI ships and avatars of long-departed personalities who offer advice and entertainment. 3 Sus obras tratan frecuentemente sobre contactos con especies extraterrestres, y. Nine thousand years later, with a flawed humanity spread over 100-odd worlds, Margolia and its ships have become Atlantis-type myths, but after a cup from Seeker falls into the hands of antiquarian Alex Benedict, the hero of McDevitt's Polaris (2004), Alex determines to win everlasting fame and vaster fortune by finding them. John Charles McDevitt 1 ( Filadelfia, 14 de abril de 1935 ), 2 que habitualmente firma sus libros con el nombre literario de Jack McDevitt, es un escritor estadounidense de ciencia ficción ganador de un premio John W. In 2688, interstellar transports Seeker and Bremerhaven left a theocratic Orwellian Earth to found a dictator-free society, Margolia and vanished. ![]() Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-space-colony theme. ![]()
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