Coming Home - (Alex Benedict Novel) by Jack McDevitt (Paperback)

About the Book

An antiquities dealer travels to Earth to search for an artifact of the early space age and to search for an interstellar transport that vanished 11 years prior.

Book Synopsis

In this "fun-filled adventure"* from the Nebula Award-winning author of Beyond the Sky, Alex Benedict must pull off a crucial space rescue...

Garnett Baylee devoted his life to trying, and failing, to find artifacts of the early space age. In the wake of his death, one was discovered in his home, raising tantalizing questions: Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache?

Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have no choice but to abandon the search for Baylee's artifacts in order to be present when the Capella--the interstellar transport that vanished years earlier in a time/space warp--is expected to reappear. There's only a window of a few hours to rescue the ship and the twenty-six hundred passengers aboard--including Alex's uncle, the man who raised him.

As the deadline for the Capella's reappearance draws near, Alex fears that the puzzle of the artifacts will be lost yet again...

"Exciting...SF in the classic mold."--*SF Signal

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Praise for Coming Home

"An easy, approachable style of writing that is both quotidian and exciting...Reading Coming Home revitalizes proper pride in humanity--what it has accomplished today and what it will design, do, and discover tomorrow...An encomium both to history and the future...[and] a heartwarming tale of friendship and fun-filled adventure."--SF Signal

"Another McDevitt classic...Coming Home is easily on par with what we've come to expect from Jack McDevitt, and his fans will not be disappointed."--AmazingStoriesMag.com

"Classic hard science fiction."--Florida Times-Union

About the Author

Jack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, English teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, and is now a full-time writer. He is the author of the Alex Benedict novels, including Firebird; the Priscilla Hutchins novels, including Starhawk; and the stand-alone novel, Beyond the Sky. His novel Seeker won a Nebula Award, and he is a multiple Nebula Award finalist. He lives in Georgia with his wife, Maureen.