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Standard Candles
| Author: | Jack McDevitt |
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Tachyon Publications, 1996 |
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| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Jack McDevitt was a fixture for years inside the pages of the top science-fiction magazines. This edition brings together for the first time sixteen of McDevitt's greatest tales. It is here where the full extent of McDevitt's talent is at last on display. In Standard Candles, wonders abound, with the lucidity and grace that have become McDevitt's trademarks.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - (1996) - essay by Charles Sheffield
- Standard Candles - (1994) - shortstory
- Tidal Effects - (1985) - shortstory
- Translations from the Colosian - (1984) - shortstory
- Black to Move - (1982) - shortstory
- The Fort Moxie Branch - (1988) - shortstory
- Promises to Keep - (1984) - novelette
- Gus - (1991) - novelette
- To Hell with the Stars - (1987) - shortstory
- Ellie - (1995) - novelette
- The Jersey Rifle - (1988) - shortstory
- Cruising Through Deuteronomy - (1995) - shortstory
- Tyger - (1991) - shortstory
- Auld Lang Boom - (1992) - shortstory
- Dutchman - (1987) - novelette
- Cryptic - (1983) - shortstory
- Time Travelers Never Die - (1996) - novella
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