Book of the Week 2, Electric Bookaloo!
Another Book of the Week for you! This one's science fiction rather than fantasy, the product of the fevered mind of none other than Jack McDevitt; the title is The Engines of God, and it is nothing more or less than an ode to space archaeologists.
You heard me.
The main character - Priscilla Hutchins, generally referred to as "Hutch" - is no archaeologist herself, but an accomplished pilot, handling FTL ships as they travel between planets. This is grand-old-style Science Fiction at its best, straight from the vein of Asimov and Heinlein; if you like classic scifi, the kind where the tech and strange new worlds set a stage rather than smothering the plot in technobabble, then this book's for you. And better yet, it is the first in a series, so if you like it - you've got a whole five more books to follow!
I'm currently reading the second in another series by the same author; the Alex Benedict books focus around an antiquities dealer and his skilled pilot partner, Chase Kolpath (playing Watson to Benedict's Holmes) in a universe where humanity has been among the stars long enough to have lost a colony or two to the mists of time. More wonderful science fiction fun for the whole (geeky) family.
A note, however; these are (relatively) hard science fiction. That means that while faster-than-light transport, antigravity and force fields of a sort are found, expect the plot to center more around realistic phenomena and just use those few flights of fantasy to allow the story free reign.
You heard me.
The main character - Priscilla Hutchins, generally referred to as "Hutch" - is no archaeologist herself, but an accomplished pilot, handling FTL ships as they travel between planets. This is grand-old-style Science Fiction at its best, straight from the vein of Asimov and Heinlein; if you like classic scifi, the kind where the tech and strange new worlds set a stage rather than smothering the plot in technobabble, then this book's for you. And better yet, it is the first in a series, so if you like it - you've got a whole five more books to follow!
I'm currently reading the second in another series by the same author; the Alex Benedict books focus around an antiquities dealer and his skilled pilot partner, Chase Kolpath (playing Watson to Benedict's Holmes) in a universe where humanity has been among the stars long enough to have lost a colony or two to the mists of time. More wonderful science fiction fun for the whole (geeky) family.
A note, however; these are (relatively) hard science fiction. That means that while faster-than-light transport, antigravity and force fields of a sort are found, expect the plot to center more around realistic phenomena and just use those few flights of fantasy to allow the story free reign.