Return to Glory: A collection of stories by Jack McDevitt
Return to Glory: A collection of stories by Jack McDevitt
English | 2023 | Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 796 KB
A fine collection of Jack McDevitt’s more recent short fiction. McDevitt explores interesting ideas – on Earth, in space, in the present, and the future. He tends toward the rational and the ‘“hard sf” explanation but can use rationality to effectively touch emotional chords, as he does in the effective ‘The Holding Pattern’. I particularly enjoyed ‘The Big Downtown’, a hard-boiled mystery in his futuristic Academy universe but set wholly on Earth. McDevitt makes his characters and settings approachable, which may sometimes rob his stories of punch, but always leaves them very readable.
The Emerson Effect
The Jersey Rifle
Voice in the Dark
Tau Ceti Said What?
The Oppenheimer Club
What’s the Point of Being Alive If You’re a Tree?
Tidal Effects
Standard Candles
The Cat’s Pajamas
Enjoy the Moment
Arcturean Nocturne
Tea Time with Aliens
Cosmic Harmony
The Gold Signal
Crossing Over
Holding Pattern
The Big Downtown
Return to Glory
The Sunrise Club
Good News
Variables
Eyes on the Prize
The Eagle Project
Riding with the Duke
The Wrong Way
Bring On the Night
Leap of Faith
Lake Agassiz
The Cassandra Project
Dig Site
Excalibur
Timely Visitor
