Coming Home
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 tantalizing questions Had he succeeded after all Why had he kept it a secret And where is the rest of the Apollo cache Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have gone to Earth to learn the truth But the trail seems to have gone cold, so they head back home to be present when the Capella, the interstellar transport that vanished eleven years earlier in a time space warp, is expected to reappear With a window of only a few hours, rescuing it is of the utmost importance Twenty six hundred passengers including Alex s uncle, Gabriel Benedict, the man who raised him are on board.Alex now finds his attention divided between finding the artifacts and anticipating the rescue of the Capella But time won t allow him to do both As the deadline for the Capella s reappearance draws near, Alex fears that the puzzle of the artifacts will be lost yet again But Alex Benedict never forgets and never gives up and another day will soon come around New Download [ Coming Home ] author [ Jack McDevitt ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The Alex Benedict books are always hit or miss for me This one is a miss, but it s still very much worth reading if you re a fan of the series It wasn t incredible, especially following Firebird which was definitely a high point along with A Talent for War and Seeker.Storywise it s a direct continuation from Firebird It was full of things that needed to happen in order to close off the series Ultimately, that is why it struggled it didn t function well enough as its own story.I guar The Alex Benedict books are always hit or miss for me This one is a miss, but it s still very much worth reading if you re a fan of the series It wasn t incredible, especially following Firebird...This series continues to be a solid and consistent read There are several plotlines going on simultaneously, with one picking up on the spaceship rescues from those outside of time, including relationship angst for Chase, and also the delightful return to Sol.Of course, a return to the Earth and our solar system is roughly on par to returning to Sumeria a few thousand years from now to try and figure out, from scratch, what those people were like.It s really a shame that humanity ...I have never read a Clive Cussler book It s just not my normal sort of fiction, although I have nothing in particular against it Reading Jack McDevitt s Coming Home, though, I kept thinking that this book was an awful lot like what I would expect a Clive Cussler book to be, just set in the future, with space hopping treasure hunters and antiquarians, instead of being bounded by the confines of the Earth.Note The rest of this review has been withheld due to the changes in Goodreads policy and I have never read a Clive Cussler book It s just not my normal sort of fiction, although I have nothing in particular against it Reading Jack McDevitt s Coming Home, though, I kept thinking that this book was an awful lot like what I would expect a Clive Cussler book to be, just set in the future, with space hopping treasure hunters and antiquarians, instead of being bounded by the confines of the Earth.Note The rest of this review ...I ve said many times often, in reviews on Goodreads.com that a day with a bad McDevitt novel beats a day with no McDevitt novel whatsoever The last two or three Alex Benedict novels haven t been bad, exactly, but they have struck me as increasingly repetitive COMING HOME follows closely on the heels of FIREBIRD, and the two share plot elements, particularly about the disappearing ships plot thread The standard McDevitt plot structure is in play here see my Firebird review for a rehash of i I ve said many times often, in reviews on Goodreads.com that a day with a bad McDevitt novel beats a day with no McDevitt novel whatsoever The last two or three Alex Benedict novels haven t been bad, exactly, but they have struck me as increasingly repetitive COMING HOME follows closely on the heels of FIREBIRD, and the two share plot elements, particularly about the disappearing ships plot thread The standard McDev...reviews.metaphorosis.com 2.5 starsAntiquarians Chase Kolpath and Alex Benedict search out lost space age artifacts and participate in an attempted rescue of a spaceliner trapped in a spacetime warp In reviewing the prequel to this book, I said I feared the series was growing tired Coming Home is unfortunate proof of that suggestion The prose is good in some places, clumsy and repetitive in others The series has never been based on action and adventure, but this book overdoes the dry descript reviews.metaphorosis.com 2.5 starsAntiquarians Chase Kolpath and Alex Benedict search out lost space age artifacts and participate in an attempted rescue of a spaceliner trapped in a spacetime warp In reviewing the prequel to this book, I said I feared the series was growing tired Coming Home is unfortunate proof of that suggestion The prose is good in some places, clumsy and repetitive in others The series has never been based on action and adventure, but this book overdoes the dry descriptions of past excitement I ke...McDevitt fans always delight at the release of a new Alex Benedict novel This novel is no exception for delight by the telling of human activities over 9 millennia in the future In this story Alex and Chase are on a search for artifacts from the Golden Age of Space Travel, especially from the Apollo missions.I was struck by an immense notion of history reading this novel Events of my life are put a in historical perspective by my era being viewed as a time many millennia in the past when we a McDevitt fans always delight at the release of a new Alex Benedict novel This novel is no exception for delight by the telling of human activities over 9 millennia in the future In this story Alex and Chase are on a search for artifacts from the Golden Age of Space Travel, especially from the Apollo missions.I was struck by an immense notion of history reading this novel Events of my life are put a in historical perspective by my era being viewed as a time many millennia in the past when we are ancient history So much has been lost due to a dark age and time So much has been misinterpreted due to lack of context Think of how we try so miserably to understand hum... I m coming home, I m coming home, tell the world I m coming home Sorry couldn t resist referencing that song Seriously, I enjoyed this one.Jack McDevitt books, especially the Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath novels, tend to be books that, when they are released, I put down whatever else I m reading to read the new one And I did so with this one Overall, it was OK It tied up some things from the first book indeed, that set the whole series in motion but overall it felt like a shaggy dog story A well written shaggy dog story, but a shaggy dog story In fact, it almost seemed like it would have been better as a novella or two novell Jack McDevitt books, especially the Alex Benedict Chase Kolpath novels, tend to be books that, when they are released, I put down whatever else I m reading to read the new one And I did so with this one Overall, it was OK It tied up some things from the first book indeed, that set the whole series in motion but overall it felt like a shaggy dog story ...Direct suite of Firebird, Coming Home is a disappointing novel The subplot of the book, an investigation about an archaeologist who has suddenly abandoned his research, is very dull Any reader with a minimum of experience in detective novels is able to guess the solution of the plot quite quickly.This narrative thread is only a pretext for visiting McDevitt s future, and in pa...I read this book because it was a nominee for the Nebula award for best novel although it didn t win It s the third or fourth Alex Benedict novel I ve read, and I really don t understand them.The premise of these novels is kind of Indiana Jones in the 15th millennium Alex Benedict goes around the galaxy recovering valuable historical artifacts to sell to private buyers But I m always very, very confused by the temporal scope the stories are set 13,000 years in the future but the people and I read this book because it was a nominee for the Nebula award for best novel although it didn t win It s the third or fourth Alex Benedict novel I ve read, and I really don t understand them.The premise of these novels is kind of Indiana Jones in the 15th millennium Alex Benedict goes around the galaxy recovering valuable historical artifacts to sell to private buyers But I m always very, very confused by the temporal scope the stories are set 13,000 years in the future but the people and culture and politics and society are vanilla 20th century Not even 21st century, but really twentieth Couple of quick examples at one point someone Alex had disliked says nice things about him on a talk show When informed of this, Alex says Maybe I ll send him a Christmas card this year Later, Alex also sees some kids on a boat off ...
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- 02 September 2017 Jack McDevitt
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- 386 pages
- Jack McDevitt
- Coming Home