Deepsix
June 2010 · Harper Collins
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In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a small scientific team to the surface to glean whatever they can about its lifeforms and lost civilizations before time runs out. But catastrophe awaits when they are stranded on this strange and complex world of puzzles and impossibilities. And now Hutch and her people must somehow survive on a hostile world going rapidly mad -- as the clock ticks toward apocalypse for a doomed enigma now called...
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4.3
19 reviews
Craig M. Houck
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8 December 2019
The best of heros, the worst of scoundrels. The servant and the self serving. GOD acknowledged and denied. Changed Hearts and Minds. Things in humanity that might never change, worlds that might one day be seen Mcdevitt using all those elements to a write a hard to put down novel.
Dan Unglenieks
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23 October 2016
One of my favorite books of all time, and a great find for 1$ at a garage sale
Ross Hoopchuk
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27 November 2018
Fun read
About the author
Jack McDevitt is the author of A Talent for War, The Engines of God, Ancient Shores, Eternity Road, Moonfall, and numerous prize-winning short stories. He has served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, taught English and literature, and worked for the U.S. Customs Service in North Dakota and Georgia.
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