When evidence of an ancient civilization is discovered on a remote planet, the Academy sends a crew to investigate. The trouble is that they don't have much time--the planet is in the last days of its collision course with a star.

It's the 21st century, and all is right with the world. Or so it seems.Vice President Charlie Haskell, who will travel anywhere for a photo op, is about to cut the ribbon for the just-completed American Moonbase. The first Mars voyage...

Thousands of years after the unsolved disappearance of an entire colony, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict stumbles upon a cup that appears to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's original ships, and, while attempting to estable the...

An unknown race called the Monument-Makers creates a stunning array of gorgeous statues, scattering them throughout the galaxy and encoding them with strange inscriptions that hold the key to the survival of humankind. Reprint. ...

...[T]his feel-good SF novel...earns its hopeful conclusion.... McDevitt is very good at imagining strange challenges--and at picturing humans coping when things don't work out as planned. His characters succeed in imposing their comp...

Sixty years after the disappearance of the passengers and crew of the luxury space yacht Polaris, the ship is found empty and adrift in space and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict sets out to uncover the truth about Polaris and reveal ...

Christopher Sim changed mankind's history forever when he forged a rag-tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of th...

A farmer, Tom Lasker, finds a sailboat made of materials unknown to science buried in his wheatfield. When he and a team of friends and scientists look for a boathouse, they find it on a neighboring Sioux reservation. The discoveries ...

To boost waning interest in interstellar travel, a mission is sent into deep space to learn the truth about 'moonriders,' the strange lights supposedly being seen in nearby systems. But Academy pilot Valentina Kouros and the team of t...

"The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King) takes readers on a science fiction adventure tour through time. When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he ha...

Chosen as One of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by Library Journal. When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins finds ...

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 star gate more than ten thousand years old has been discovere...

Priscilla Hutchins has been through many experiences.This is the story of her first unforgettable adventure…  Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins has finally completed a nerve-bending qualification flight for her pilot's license....

From Nebula Award–winning author Jack McDevitt comes the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series featuring Gabe triumphantly reuniting with Alex and Chase to retrieve a possible alien artifact—which may lead them to solve t...

The classic first-contact science fiction novel that launched the career of Jack McDevitt, the national bestselling author of Coming Home—now revised from the original edition, and featuring a new foreword. From a remote corner of ...

The universe has been explored--and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-d...

Investigating the mysterious disappearance of her sister (a deep space surveyor), Kim Brandywine runs into one question after another: what happened to the only member of the survey team to come back alive, was there a murder, why doe...

Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath travel to the most remote of human worlds and uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval—a secret that somebody desperately wants hi...

In this "fun-filled adventure"* from the Nebula Award–winning author of Beyond the Sky, Alex Benedict must pull off a crucial space rescue…Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the ...

Forty-one years ago, the renowned physicist Dr. Christopher Robin vanished. Before his disappearance, his fringe science theories about the existence of endless alternate universes had earned him both admirers and enemies. Now his wid...

Sunset Tuttle spent a lifetime looking for alien species. Twenty-five years after Tuttle's death, Alex Benedict discovers a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols, now in the possession of Tuttle's one- time lover Rachel Banniste...

A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy ISSUE 11: November 2014 Mike Resnick, Editor Shahid Mahmud, Publisher Stories by: Leena Likitalo, Robert Silverberg, James Aquilone, Maureen McHugh, Alex Shvartsman, Jack Skillingstead, Ralp...