Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)

Posted on 17 August 2018 by Jack McDevitt

The Barnes Noble ReviewAlex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath ambitious antiquities dealers from Jack McDevitt s A Talent for War 1989 and, recently, Polaris are back in Seeker, a story in which the two antiquarians search for a legendary lost colony that is both a science fiction thriller and a remarkably complex mystery More than 9,000 years after an interstellar transport named Seeker left an overcrowded and politically repressive Earth with the dream of founding a new society on an unspecified planet, Benedict and Kolpath stumble across a ceramic cup that was once on the now legendary lost starship But tracking down how the ancient artifact got from the ship into the hands of a maltreated woman and her thuggish boyfriend turns out to be than Benedict and Kolpath bargained for as their search leads them across multiple star systems and straight into an anonymous assassin s crosshairs But as the killer closes in, the two courageous antiquarians uncover the jaw dropping truth about the lost starship and the legendary colony Equally reminiscent of Frederik Pohl s Hugo and Nebula Award winning Heechee saga Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, et al and a classic Ellery Queen mystery, McDevitt s Seeker will appeal to readers of hard core science fiction, as well as adventurous mystery fans looking for an out of this world story And just like Polaris, Seeker is characterized by a bombshell of an ending that will leave readers absolutely awestruck Paul Goat Allen Download Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3) by Jack McDevitt – kino-fada.fr Good Grief I just lost my review.Here s a summary, alas 06 Nebula winner, equal parts Space Opera and Noir Mystery, but that really translates mostly into Future History Archeology, with a treasure hunting bent, twists and turns, lots of interesting characters, and lost spacecraft and lost colonies.Was I really happy about the last twist and the epilogue Hell yes All this takes place about 10k in the future, but there s a legend of a lost colony gone 9k ago before the advent of FTL travel or Good Grief I just lost my review.Here s a summary, alas 06 Nebula winner, equal parts Space Opera and Noir Mystery, but that really translates mostly into Future History Archeology, with a treasure hunting bent, twists and turns, lots of interesting characters, and lost spacecraft and lost colonies.Was I really happy about the last twist and the epilogue Hell yes All this takes place about 10k in the f...It s somehow difficult to qualify just why I enjoy McDevitt so much His stories invariably have a long build up Yet, I always end up enjoying them a lot Perhaps it s the big reveal mechanism that he so effectively employs Perhaps it s the fact that the Alex Benedict books are so hard to pigeonhole Is it far future thriller Is it Hard SF Is it Space Opera Is it archaeological mystery in space Is it all of the above Perhaps it s simply the fact that they feel so comfortable, like a pai It s somehow difficult to qualify just why I enjoy McDevitt so much His stories invariably have a long build up Yet, I always end up enjoying them a lot Perhaps it s the big reveal mechanism that he so effectively employs Perhaps it s the fact that the Alex Benedict books are so hard to pigeonhole Is it far future thriller Is it Hard SF Is it Space Opera Is it archaeological mystery in space Is it all of the above Perhaps it s simply the fact that they feel so comfortable, like a pair of lived in jeans.Suffice to say, I do enjoy these books Seeker, in particular, is one of my favourites Nobody is likely to draw any comparison between Alex Benedict and Indiana Jones he pretty much leaves all the manly action type stuff to his female sidekick , but these books do have a strong archeological bent, albeit on a va...This was the Nebula Award winner for 2006, so I thought I d be in for a treat The premise sounded pretty good 9,000 years in the future, two antiquities salvage experts find a relic from a lost colony ship which leads to big adventure and lots of danger.There are a lot of cool ideas about future technology I especially liked the avatars of famous historical persons, assembled from all available data on the net The alien relations the humans have with the Mutes is fairly interesting Human This was the Nebula Award winner for 2006, so I thought I d be in for a treat The premise sounded pretty good 9,000 years in the future, two antiquities salvage experts find a relic from a lost colony ship which leads to big adventure and lots of danger.There are a lot of cool ideas about future technology I especially liked the avatars of famous historical per...First of all, this is the most entertaining science fiction novel I ve read in ten years, since I discovered the Hyperion Cantos I have read quite a bit of scifi, and this is among the best of the best I honestly do not understand why there are notfive star reviews.Here s why I loved it It takes place in ten thousand years but it ascertains that human beings will be largely the same History gets lost the older you go back Lessons from history are still the same Mystery begets interes First of all, this is the most entertaining science fiction novel I ve read in ten years, since I discovered the Hyperion Cantos I have read quite a bit of scifi, and this is among the best of the best I honestly do not understand why there are notfive star reviews.Here s why I loved it It takes place in ten thousand years but it ascertains that human beings will be largely the same History gets lost the older you go back Lessons from history are still the same Mystery begets interest This is a mystery novel wrapped in ...Seeker is the most original, interesting, and thoughtful of the Alex Benedict novels Like the others, so long as you don t take it too seriously, you can have some fun reading it I give this one four stars instead of three l...I stumbled onto this book when going over a list of Nebula Award winners I must say as a sci fi story it plays differently then most of the other books in the genre It s a mix of Indiana Jones with Marco Polo set in the distant future It s a lost civilization story where the main characters are treasure hunters looking for rare items from the distant past The story takes place 10,000 years into the future humans have been traveling in space for so long that space faring civilizations have I stumbled onto this book when going over a list of Nebula Award winners I must say as a sci fi story it plays differently then most of the other books in the genre It s a mix of Indiana Jo...I listened to the audio book, don t do that The woman who reads this is terrible There is no drama in her voice She differentiates the different women characters by making themor less breathy That s just too much for me to stand.I cannot believe this is a Nebula Award winner At first the plot was fairly interesting, although there is a ton of info dumping going on But it kept going long past when it should and the ending was unfulfilling Plus there is bad science.I don t have the pa I listened to the audio book, don t do that The woman who reads this is terrible There is no drama in her voice She differentiates the different women characters by making themor less breathy That s just too much for me to stand.I cannot believe this is a Nebula Award winner At first the plot was fairly interesting, although there is a ton of info dumping going on But it kept going long past when it should and the ending was unfulfilling Plus there is bad science.I don t have the patience to discuss everything so I m just going to talk about the science.1 The alien race, the mutes ...Great mix of sci fi, mystery and adventure.Thes book remind me of a mix of Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones thrown into a sci fi setting A mystery story set in the future, with an antiquities dealer as the main protagonist In this universe the human race has been in space for about 20,000 years In that time many ships, colonies and valuable items have gone missing Alex Benedict, with the help of Chase Kolpath, specializes in finding missing and valuable items Seeker is the story of Margo Great mix of sci fi, mystery and adventure.Thes book remind me of a mix of Sherlock Holmes and Indiana Jones thrown into a sci fi setting A mystery story set in the future, with an antiquities dealer as the main protagonist In this u...3.5 stars Pretty good Along the way I was wishing foraction, like in Engines of God, but the ending is really good McDevitt has an above average amount of humanity in his books, and that kept me going.I read this some years ago and enjoyed itand did the same this time as well

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17 August 2018

Jack McDevitt