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Engines of God series by Jack McDevitt
English | ePUB | 9.58 MB | Books: 6
The author
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology. His two main series are the Alex Benedict series and the Priscilla Hutchins series.
McDevitt’s first published story was “The Emerson Effect” in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Five years later, he published his first novel, The Hercules Text, about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human civilization. This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt’s following novels, which focused on making first contact. Frequently this theme is mixed with both trepidation before the unknown and a sense of wonder at the universe.
With The Engines of God (1994), McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifacts by the time humans arrive on the scene. Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in six more books, Deepsix (2001), Chindi (2002), Omega (2003), Odyssey (2006), Cauldron (2007) and StarHawk (2013). The mystery surrounding the destructive “Omega Clouds” (which are introduced in The Engines of God) is left unexplored until Omega.
McDevitt went to La Salle University, where a short story of his won the annual Freshman Short Story Contest and was published in the school’s literary magazine, Four Quarters. As McDevitt explained in an interview, “I was on my way. Then I read David Copperfield and realized I could never write at that level, and therefore I should find something else to do. I joined the Navy, drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a customs inspector’s job on the northern border, and didn’t write another word for a quarter-century.” McDevitt received a master’s degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. As of 2007, McDevitt lives near Brunswick, Georgia. In 2005, he donated his archive to the department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Northern Illinois University.
Synopsis
The story primarily follows Priscilla Hutchins – aka “Hutch” – a prestigious starship pilot for the Academy, (the archaeological organization responsible for many on- and off-world scientific endeavors.) Hutch receives orders to take the Academy ship “Winckelmann” and evacuate the final archaeological team on the planet Quraqua.
This evacuation is the result of a complicated series of political maneuvers, and is not favored by the Academy, which until this point had conducted extensive surveys of the planet in an attempt to learn about the former alien inhabitants of the world.
The now-extinct Quraquans had a complex history spanning tens of thousands of years, and scientists had expected to have an unlimited timeframe for scientific discovery.
Instead, they were being driven out after only 30 years, so that Quraqua could be terraformed; as the most Earth-like planet discovered so far, there was a tremendous pressure to begin transforming it into a New Earth, due to the deteriorating conditions of Earth itself.
A total evacuation was called for, due to the nature of the terraforming process. Many nuclear devices were to be detonated in the planet’s polar ice caps, in order to raise the world’s sea level and bring about a warming climate change. This terraforming effort was being led by the wealthy corporation, Kosmik.
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