Infinity Beach
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Following a few ominous clues, Kim discovers the ship's log was faked. Something happened out there in the darkness between the stars, and she's prepared to go to any length to find answers. Even if it means giving up her career...stealing a starship...losing her lover. Kim is about to discover the truth about her sister -- and about more than she ever dared imagine.
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Academy series, including The Long Sunset. He attended La Salle University, then 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. He 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. Along with winning the Nebula Award in 2006, he has also been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Achievement. He and his wife live near Brunswick, Georgia.
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Reviews for Infinity Beach
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A pretty good read, interesting setting, more of a mystery then anything else but it's nice the way all the pieces fit together.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Another of McDevitt's heroines seeks to determine what happened to her clone sister while she was searching for any kind of alien existence in the galaxy. Every step of the way the heroine finds something, good enough to end the search…but not for her. She ultimately learns: what happened to her sister and the 3 other people in the team; and then she learns how they were killed; and then why they were killed; and then...that her sister screwed up the first human-alien encounter and she spends the rest of the book trying to make amends with the now angry aliens. Good detective story. I'm impressed that McDevitt can create such excellent "who done what, when, where & why" stories that don't rely on a dystopian backdrop necessitating a lot of insane violence.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This novel felt so much like one of McDevitt's Alex Benedict stories that at times I was convinced he had written a Benedict series novel recycling the same plot, but apparently I read this once before and filed it in my head as a Benedict novel. A good mystery and a haunting first contact story.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not his best book, not that believable
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another of McDevitt's televisual novels with his well-drawn worlds. This novel is a mixture of sf, horror, murder mystery and political thriller. I visualised the heroine with an Eighties hairdo and shoulder pads, and in numerous other places I felt my mind's eye was watching a tv mini-series. I swear I could even hear the sound fx.But the story was engaging, and the far-future technology, both human and alien, was well-realised and sufficiently different from the norm to hold my interest.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a science fiction book that occasionally reads like a horror and occasionally reads as mystery. While I enjoyed the protagonist’s search for the truth and for information about other intelligent life in the universe, the book as a whole didn't leave me with strong impressions.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is really quite an entertaining thriller set in a scifi/first contact tableau. It is set in a distant future in which, after finding and colonizing a few earthlike worlds, but finding absolutely no sign of any extraterrestrial life, mankind has essentially given up on both space exploration and the search for other life in the universe. Our protagonist, Emily, is a young scientist turned p.r. person for the remaining space exploration agency. She starts looking into the mysterious disappearance of her sister some twenty five years earlier, and eventually starts to find evidence that perhaps her sister was part of a crew that made first contact. McDevitt does a good job of building suspense, and laying out reasons why a host of powerful characters might want to keep our first contact with an alien race secret. I also liked his musings on humanity's need to search for something more, and the potential social and psychological impact of giving up on this search. Certainly, he makes a convincing case that folks put in a position where they might make first contact should have some level of training as to how to respond. Don't expect anything profoundly thought-provoking about the aliens themselves; they are more a plot device than anything else.