Book Review: Coming Home by Jack McDevitt

From the start I should probably make it clear that Jack McDevitt’s ‘Alex Benedict’ books are one of my favourite series, so I could tell you how great ‘Coming Home’ is without even reading it. Having said that, I shall attempt to write something sensible about the book rather than just enthusing about it.

Read the rest of my review at SF Crowsnest.

Random Interview Question: Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt is the author of over  dozen novels, including the Alex Benedit series I've been enjoying for the past couple of years. The first of theose was A Talent for War and inspires the first question in my RIQ feature.

Q. What would you like to have a talent for?

A. I guess I’d settle for the ability to be objective. If I could learn to look at issues based on the facts rather than on my preconceptions (my ‘gut’?), I’d get a lot closer to the truth than I’m currently able to--

So Much to Read...

Suddenly, I have a veritable pile of reading material. In the non-fiction departiment I'm partway through How to Fossilise your Hamster, with Palin's New Europe waiting to go next. Meanwhile I'm reading Jack Vance's The Grey Prince while Big Planet awaits, both fresh from a well-known on-line auction site, and also in the post came a brand new copy of Jack McDevitt's A Talent for War that I bought after thoroughly enjoying Polaris recently. The first of the Foundation prequels also awaits, though having read the Dune prequels I'm a bit cautious of the possible desecration of a classic. Any advice on that one? Finally, a Frederick Pohl book who's title escapes me at the moment; it's from the VGSF Classics imprint though, and they haven't let me down yet.