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author Jack McDevitt publisher Tachyon Publications published 1969 isbn 0964832046 -
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Standard Candles: The Best Short Fiction of Jack McDevitt
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In both his novels and his short fiction, Jack McDevitt has shown a terrific range of skills and imagination and speculation. Only one thing remains the same from piece to piece to piece - they're all damn fine stories.
Submitted Apr 28th 10 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
It's high time indeed for a Jack McDevitt story collection! McDevitt writes with wisdom, compassion, and an abiding sense of wonder - everything that has drawn me again and again to the worlds of science fiction - real people with real concerns, in extraordinary settings. If you haven't read this man's work, start now!
Submitted Sep 14th 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
You hold in your hand some of the best work of one of our best writers.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Always engaging and insightful, McDevitt can be counted on to ask the deep questions.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Jack McDevitt is one of the few authors in contemporary science fiction whose work moves faultlessly from scientic speculation to speculations on the nature of reality and the human condition. McDevitt fashions fully realized worlds, rich in imagination, peopled by fully believable characters. More important, you can count on him for a damn fine read. - Bruce Boston
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
It's not McDevitt's style, though his prose is wonderfully clear and deceptively simple. It's not his plots, though his stories always ask hard questions, and never settle for easy answers. For me it's his humanity. McDevitt understands the way people talk and think and behave, and still somehow has boundless compassion for the human animal.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Long after you've closed this book,the stories will stay in your mind and in your heart.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
Jack McDevitt is one of those rare science fiction writers capable of taking the tropes of the field - from war and the military to alien contact to scripture vs. science - and breathing wonderful life into them. He's always a pleasure to read.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
The ideal writer can stretch your mind with a wonderful concept while also touching your heart with a personal story. Most of us fail at one or the other, but from the very beginning of his career Jack McDevitt has shown that he can do both.
Submitted Jul 22nd 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments -
McDevitt is the real thing: a writer with depth, integrating scientific issueswith human concerns on a vast stage, lit by vivid colors.
Submitted Jul 21st 09 by Writersrecommendations, 0 comments