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In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva Ill Twenty one years later, the opportunity for scientists to study this galactic rarity a life supporting planet is about to vanish forever as a rogue gas giant has invaded the planetary system on a deadly collision course with the world they are now calling Deepsix.A superluminal pilot for the Academy of Science and Technology, Priscilla Hutch Hutchins is the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of Deepsix With less than three weeks left before the disaster, she and a small scientific team including Randall Nightingale a survivor of the original expedition who was made the scapegoat for its failure must descend to the surface, and glean whatever they can about the doomed planet s lifeforms and lost civilizations.There is to this strange and complex world, however, than anyone could have imagined hidden predators stone cities under the ice remnants of a warlike primitive society, yet with inexplicable hints of an impossible technology buried in the rubble and in orbit around the soon to be demolished planet The deeper Hutch and her team delve, the puzzles are revealed within puzzles and startling discoveries lead only to greater and perplexing questionsBut then the unthinkable occurs An earthquake destroys the explorers only means of escape As scientists and sightseers who have come to witness the spectacular end of Deepsix watch helplessly from miles above Hutch and her people must survive somehow on a hostile planet going rapidly mad And with the clock ticking relentlessly toward an unavoidable apocalypse, they must find some way, any way to get off before Deepsix plunges like a pebble into the limitless depths of the rampaging gas giant. New Read Deepsix By Jack McDevitt For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A very sturdy sequel to The Engines of God In this second outing for Academy pilot Priscilla Hutchins, a rogue moon is hurtling toward Maleiva III, one of the few known planets in the galaxy capable of supporting life Hutchins flies a team of scientists down to the surface to gather as much data as they can before the catastrophe hits, but an accident leaves them stranded and they only have one slim chance of escaping in time if the planet doesn t kill them first.The plot of Deepsix follows A very sturdy sequel to The Engines of God In ...The best thing I can say about McDevitt s SF is that it s always consistent, rich, and adventuresome While I never expect anything wild or any the pushing of the boundaries, I can always enjoy planetary exploration and the archeology of ancient, long dead alien races It s a mystery wrapped in interesting physical dimensions for worlds, such as this one It s muchmassive than earth but the density is still within the perfect zone and yet we know everything has to go to hell.Yep More The best thing I can say about McDevitt s SF is that ...I struggled way too much to want to continue This sequel perpetuated all the shortcomings from the first novel, and did not even bother to continue with where that book left off Deepsix suffered from really stupid characters, lowbrow plotting, and used the exact same disasters from the first novel view spoiler i.e., people trapped on a planet with cataclysmic disaster looming hide spoiler The names and places are different, but the game is still I struggled way too much to want to continue This sequel perpetuated all the shortcomings from the first novel, and did not even bother to continue with where that book left off Deepsix suffered from really stupid characters, lowbrow plotting, and used the exact same ...This is an exciting story with a slew of interesting concepts A life bearing planet with fierce, interesting predators remnants of an intelligent but not very advanced civilization further remains of an advanced technological race and a rogue gas giant about to collide with this planet We meet up again with Priscilla Hutch Hutchins, 20 years after her last escapade in The Engines of God Hutch leads a pick up team to the planet surface to gather whatever archeological artifacts they can This is an exciting story with a slew of interesting concepts A life bearing planet with fierce, interesting predators remnants of an intelligent but not very advanced civilization further remains of an advanced technological race and a rogue gas giant about to collide with this planet We meet up again with Priscilla Hutch Hutchins, 20 years after her last escapade in The Engines of God Hutch leads a pick up team to the planet surface to gather whatever archeological artifacts they can find before the planets coll...Hutch , pilot Priscilla Hutchins, leads a team to explore just discovered evidence of civilization, twelve days before planet Deepsix breaks apart, armed with laser cutters only a notch or twoefficient p66 than the first fatal expedition Randall Nightingale is silent small in stature, thin, gray, only a couple of centimeters taller than the dimunitive Hutch p37, reclusive and bitter after taking blame for deadly cardinals on visit 19 years before, some from Gregory MacAllister The Hutch , pilot Priscilla Hutchins, leads a team to explore just discovered evidence of civilization, twelve days before planet Deepsix breaks apart, armed with laser cutters only a notch or twoefficient p66 than the first fatal expedition Randall Nightingale is silent small in stature, thin, gray, only a couple of centimeters taller than the dimunitive Hutch p37, reclusive and bitter after taking blame for deadly cardinals on visit 19 years before, some from Gregory MacAl...Deepsix by Jack McDevitt is the second novel in McDevitt s academy series or Priscilla Hutchens series, whichever you choose to name it Maleiva III is a planet that is headed for a catastrophic collision with a huge gas giant named Morgan s World Within weeks before the collision will occur, Priscilla Hutchens Hutch is recruited by the Academy of Science and Technology to lead a team to explore, record, photograph, and even collect artifacts of former civilizations especially from Deepsix by Jack McDevitt is the second novel in McDevitt s academy series or Priscilla Hutchens series, whichever you choose to name it Maleiva III is a planet that is headed for a catastrophic collision with a huge gas giant named Morgan s World Within weeks before the collision will occur, Priscilla Hutchens Hutch is recruited by the Academy of Science and Technology to lead a team to explore, record, photograph, and even collect artifacts of former civilizations especially from advanced technological civilizations An attempt to explore the planet about twenty years earlier had ended in disaster when several team members were killed by vicious indigenous creatures Hutch and her hastily assembled team are well aware of the danger, but there isn t time to bring in a well prepared team of experts, a well armed protective force, or the equipment that would ordinarily be used, before the planet and everything on it will be swallowed by the gas giant Hutch a...Deepsix is a brilliant sci fi thriller The ideas are fantastic, especially the premise on which the entire book is based which is that an earth like planet will collide with a large rogue wanderer gas giant This of course is of very high interest to the scientific community of the 23rd Century, so they are gathered in that solar system to ogle at the upcoming spectacle of Deepsix being ripped apart However, when the spectators arrive six weeks prior to the event, they find that the Deepsix is a brilliant sci fi thriller The ideas are fantastic, especially the premise on which the entire book is based which is that an earth like planet will collide with a large rogue wanderer gas giant This of course is of very high interest to the scientific community of the 23rd Century, so they are gathered in that solar system to ogle...This is the second book in The Academy series and I loved it Hutch, the space ship pilot from the first novel, is back, a number of years later, still piloting ships around for the Academy.A back plot An earth like planet is found and a group of scientists found to explore it, but they re nearly all killed by bird like creatures O...A great story about the results of an ad hoc mission to explore a doomed planet and the results when your resources are slowly lost and you are under attack An innovative solution arises and then the countdown begins to see if they can be saved.Wow, I enjoyed this so much A lot of action laying out in a mostly realistic manner.

Deepsix
  • English
  • 20 September 2017
  • Mass Market Paperback
  • 508 pages
  • 0061020060
  • Jack McDevitt
  • Deepsix