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Polaris (Alex Benedict #2)

Jack McDevitt

Hardcover | Pages: 370 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 4708 Users | 288 Reviews

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Original Title:	Polaris (Alex Benedict, #2)
ISBN:	0441012027 (ISBN13: 9780441012022)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Alex Benedict #2
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2005)

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The main problem with SF/Mystery crossovers is that you kinda rather need to be a fan of both genres.

Fortunately, I am, and so this book fit like a pretty comfortable glove. And it's not even a traditional mystery, either. Imagine a modern mystery that included a missing crew on an ocean liner from a hundred years in the past. You've got a lot of weird questions and archeology and a lot of research ahead of you, but wait! What if some really weird events keep happening around you, your artifacts, and your friends? What if there's a conspiracy to keep a Big Secret?

Ahhh, so then, keep the smart premise, interesting plot, and weave it in a fully-realized and deep future society with spacecraft, AI's, and lots of settled planets, aliens, and a few other layers of mystery. Still sound interesting? Yeah! That's because it is!

These books are all about managing your expectations. Know what you're getting into and then you won't be disappointed if what you really wanted was a bunch of corporals issuing orders and pew-pewing across the spaceways. :)

I think I liked this book more than the previous. You don't have to read them in order, thankfully, but what I liked most was the female narrator. She's cool, or at least she's a lot cooler than Alex Benedict, himself. The guy is relegated to a supporting role. I thought that was funny as hell. :)

The best part of this series is the deeply thoughtful construction of the plot, the worlds, and the explored implications. It's smart and the author's voice is quite strong. I can't say that these are my absolute favorite SF books of all time, but I do appreciate everything they accomplish and how they build a strong foundation for a beautiful change in the genre. :)

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Title	:	Polaris (Alex Benedict #2)
Author	:	Jack McDevitt
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 370 pages
Published	:	January 2005 by Ace Books (first published November 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Mystery. Space. Space Opera

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I really quite enjoyed this one too, but some of the basic facts that the plot rests upon don't bear too much examination.McDevitt tells us in this one that there are about a thousand FTL ships in the entire human culture. He also tells us that the population of Earth is up to about 12 billion, and that there is at least one other over-industrialised and over-populated world amongst the known worlds. And we get the impression at least that there are quite a few of these settled worlds. Which,

This is a well-done mystery set in the far future (more mystery than sci-fi).

The main characters are like a really, really dense version of Sherlock and Holmes, you'll figure out the gist of what happened to the Polaris' crew about 150 pages before they do. You'll also get really angry when they do things straight out of an Austin Powers movie ("A.I. systems never go down, but we'll just get in this vehicle whose A.I. system is mysteriously offline after someone has already tried to kill us once.", "We just disabled our arch enemy, but instead of restrain them we'll go

The main problem with SF/Mystery crossovers is that you kinda rather need to be a fan of both genres.Fortunately, I am, and so this book fit like a pretty comfortable glove. And it's not even a traditional mystery, either. Imagine a modern mystery that included a missing crew on an ocean liner from a hundred years in the past. You've got a lot of weird questions and archeology and a lot of research ahead of you, but wait! What if some really weird events keep happening around you, your

I continue to find myself loving everything I've read by Jack McDevitt. This is his second book featuring Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath, though reading the first book is not necessary for enjoying this book.The book features a mystery involving the disappearance of the crew of the Polaris which is witnessing the destruction of a star, decades earlier. In the present (which is our future), Benedict and Kolpath become involved in this mystery through very strange circumstances, including

In the mood for a little space opera/mystery so I'm rereading with the audiobook which is quite well narrated.===========Having really enjoyed McDevitt's Engines of God and read Orson Scott Card's review of the Alex Benedict/Chase Kolpath mystery/archeological-treasure-hunt series I turned to the library to see what was around. I was happy to see that they had number 2 in the series and so that's where I'm beginning.As with Engines of God, this book presents one mystery/cliffhanger after another

Wellllll parts of this I liked. Interesting world building, I liked the concept of sci-fi mystery, but some things didn't do it for me. Not having read other books in the series, I had a hard time really rooting for the two main leads, and it's told from first person perspective, a woman, but she didn't SEEM like a woman talking. I figured out some of the plot way ahead of the heroes, so I started skimming a bit through the last half. I dunno, it was worth reading and I might pick up more by the