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基本信息·出版社：Ace
·页码：384 页
·出版日期：2006年10月
·ISBN：0441013759
·条形码：9780441013753
·版本：Paperback
·装帧：简装
·开本：32
·正文语种：英语
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With
Polaris, multiple Nebula Award-nominee Jack McDevitt reacquainted readers with Alex Benedict, his hero from A Talent for War. Now, Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, return to solve a riddle that leads them to the edge of known space.
作者简介 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.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. 编辑推荐 Reviews‘Perhaps the best pure storyteller working in the field today’
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The Washington Post Book World“‘Why read Jack McDevitt? ‘ the question should be:’ Who among us is such a slow pony that she/he isn’t reading McDevitt?’”
----------Harlan Ellison
“The novel delivers everything it promises with a gigantic wallop.”
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Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Superb storytelling.”
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Library Journal 专业书评 From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-space-colony theme. In 2688, interstellar transports
Seeker and
Bremerhaven left a theocratic Orwellian Earth to found a dictator-free society, Margolia—and vanished. 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. 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. 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. This novel delivers everything it promises—with a galactic wallop.
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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist 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 GreenCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
