A Voice in the Night A Voice in the Night

A Voice in the Night

    • 4.3 • 12 Ratings
    • $5.99
    • $5.99

Publisher Description

Jack McDevitt has been a Sherlock Holmes fan since he was a teenager, although he reports that Holmes-style mysteries, whodunits, are not his favorite style. Jack encountered Gilbert Chesterton’s Father Brown tales a few years later and they ultimately became the prime influence in his science fiction. The issue with Father Brown was never a question of who committed the murder, but rather what in heaven’s name is going on here?


Why does an astronaut, in “Cathedral,” sacrifice her life to collide with an asteroid that she knows poses no threat to the Earth? Why does a scientist who’s designed an actual working AI in “The Play’s the Thing,” hide what’s he’s done? How is it that the lives of two people working at Moonbase in “Blinker” depend on a quasar?


In “Lucy,” Jack shows us why sending automated vehicles to explore the distant outposts of the solar system may not be a good idea. And in “Searching for Oz,” an alternate history story, how things might have been if SETI had gotten what it was looking for. He describes our reaction in “Listen Up, Nitwits,” when a voice begins speaking to us, apparently from Jupiter, in Greek. And in “The Lost Equation,” a Holmes adventure, we discover who really was first to arrive at e=mc2.


Jack also provides two episodes, “Maiden Voyage” and “Waiting At the Altar,” from Priscilla Hutchins’ qualification flight; and an effort by a sixteen-year-old Alex Benedict, in the title story with his uncle Gabe and Chase Kolpath’s mom, Tori, who are trying to understand why a brilliant radio entertainer, lost in the stars when his drive unit suffered a malfunction, never said goodbye.


These and fourteen other rides into odd places await the reader.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2018
August 31
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Subterranean Press
SELLER
Subterranean Press
SIZE
4.3
MB
Echo Echo
2010
Firebird Firebird
2011
The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack The Seventh Science Fiction Megapack
2013
Solaris Rising Solaris Rising
2011
The Time Traveler's Almanac The Time Traveler's Almanac
2014
The 16th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 18 Stories by William C. Gault The 16th Golden Age of Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®: 18 Stories by William C. Gault
2015
The Engines Of God The Engines Of God
1994
A Talent for War A Talent for War
2004
Firebird Firebird
2011
Echo Echo
2010
Polaris Polaris
2004
Deepsix Deepsix
2010
Shadows of Eternity Shadows of Eternity
2021
Beyond the Fringe Beyond the Fringe
2023
Shipstar Shipstar
2014
Glorious Glorious
2020
Bowl of Heaven Bowl of Heaven
2012
World Engines: Destroyer World Engines: Destroyer
2019