Jack McDevitt
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
1997
Description
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 -- a hidden sanctuary called Haven, where even now the secrets of their civilization might still be found.
Chaka's brother was one of those who sought to find Haven and never returned. But now Chaka has inherited a rare Roadmaker artifact...
Author
Publisher
HarperPrism
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
When "something" is brought back from a space exploration expedition, "something" now threatens them all. A gripping "first contact" thriller from one of science fiction's brightest talents, the acclaimed author of "Moonfall" and "Ancient Shores."
3) Deepsix
Author
Series
Academy series) volume 2
Publisher
EOS
Pub. Date
2001
Description
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 less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Hutch has been the Academy's best pilot for decades. She's had numerous first contact encounters and even became a minor celebrity. But world politics have shifted from exploration to a growing fear that the program will run into an extraterrestrial race more advanced than humanity and war. Despite taking part in the recent scientific breakthrough that rejuvenates the human body and expands one's lifespan, Hutch finds herself as a famous interstellar...
6) Echo
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010
Description
After 8000 years of star travel, humanity has found only one alien species. Alex Benedict may be on the path to finding another one, but an assassin has other ideas.
7) Thunderbird
Author
Series
Ancient shores volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
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 in North Dakota, on a Sioux reservation near Devils Lake. Travel through the gate currently leads to three equally mysterious destinations: (1) an apparently empty garden world, quickly dubbed Eden ; (2)...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy, encoded with strange inscriptions. Twenty-third century interstellar archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on several planets, searching for clues. But their time is running out. Earth is quickly becoming unlivable, and colonizers want to begin renovating these abandoned worlds for human habitation....
9) Octavia gone
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 8
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact--which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead--just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live...
10) Coming home
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 7
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 9
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When an entire town seemingly vanishes from a planet with conditions favorable to life, Alex Benedict and his archaeological crew must solve the mystery of how these aliens disappeared so rapidly--and why--which raises the stakes as they each look to maketheir mark on history.
13) Firebird
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath discover that a missing renowned physicist had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system where they vanished. Following the physicist's trail into the unknown puts Benedict and Kolpath in danger.
16) The devil's eye
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene, who has been mind-wiped. She has no memory of her life, or of her plea for assistance. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex uncovers a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval.
19) Seeker
Author
Series
Alex Benedict novels volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
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20) Starhawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Priscilla Hutchins takes a job on an interstellar starship, working for a corporation who is colonizing two planets and killing off native life forms, sparking outrage from Earthlings who fill her work day with bomb threats and sabotage.
"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...
