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3	Jack [=McDevitt=] (born April 14, 1935) is an American ScienceFiction writer, known for mixing future-archeology in with his SF.
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5	He has two extended series of novels: the ''Literature/AlexBenedict'' series about the titular antiquities dealer/investigator and his pilot and business partner, Chase Kolpath, and the ''Literature/PriscillaHutchins'' series about a pilot who works for a xeno-archeology Academy (they investigate alien ruins). He also has about a half-dozen standalone novels covering subjects ranging from FirstContact to AfterTheEnd.
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7	!!Works:
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9	* The ''Literature/AlexBenedict'' series:
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11	** ''A Talent for War''
12	** ''Polaris''
13	** ''Seeker''
14	** ''The Devil's Eye''
15	** ''Echo''
16	** ''Firebird''
17	** ''Coming Home''
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19	* ''Literature/AncientShores''
20	* ''Literature/TheCassandraProject'' (with Creator/MikeResnick)
21	* ''Literature/EternityRoad''
22	* ''Literature/TheFurtherAdventuresOfBatman'' -- contributed "Literature/HappyBirthday" with Creator/MarkLVanName
23	* ''Literature/TheHerculesText''
24	* ''Literature/InfinityBeach''
25	* ''{{Literature/Moonfall}}''
26	* The ''Literature/PriscillaHutchins'' series (aka ''The Academy Novels'')
27	[[/index]]
28	** ''The Engines of God''
29	** ''Deepsix''
30	** ''Chindi''
31	** ''Omega''
32	** ''Odyssey''
33	** ''Cauldron''
34	** ''Starhawk''
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36	* ''Literature/TimeTravelersNeverDie''
37	[[/index]]
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39	!!Tropes used in his works:
40	* DetonationMoon: In the novel ''Moonfall'', the moon is smashed into itty-bitty bits by a mysterious giant comet just days after a commercial moonbase has been built there.
41	* FirstContact: ''The Hercules Text'', published almost simultaneously with Carl Sagan's ''Literature/{{Contact}}'', has a very similar premise to that novel: signals are received by Earth via a radio telescope which contain mathematical information that turn out to be the key to a later transmission containing a great deal of scientific information. The effect of all this on the peoples of Earth is dramatic.
42	* InnocentAliens: In the short story "Cryptic", the director of a SETI project is a great believer in this trope, and this causes him to hide some excellent candidate signals because they imply that a war is going on out there. This is only discovered after his death.
43	* RetroactivePreparation: ''Time Travelers Never Die'' makes extensive use of this principle.
44	* SanDimasTime: Averted almost to the point of subversion in ''Time Travelers Never Die''. The protagonists realize early on that the clock is ''not'' always running in San Dimas, and use that fact to prepare for time trips or to bail themselves out of dicey situations.
45	* SignatureStyle: A decades-old mystery revolving around someone suddenly acting in a way contrary to their entire life's work.

Context Creator / JackMcDevitt