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4 unusual facts about Jack McDevitt


Benko Gambit

The Benko Gambit is featured in Jack McDevitt's short story, "Black to Move", anthologized in both Standard Candles and again in the 2009 collection Breach The Hull, as well as in William Ballard's short story "Retrograde Analysis", published in Analog Science Fiction.

Darrell Awards

They were bestowed at Borders Books & Music Cafe in Germantown, Tennessee -- winners Jack McDevitt for "Eternity Road" (best novel of 1997) and Stephen Climer for "By Any Name of Devil" (best short story of 1997).

EerieCon

;Chapbook 1: "Gravity Isn't Working on Rainbow Bridge" by Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt

With The Engines of God (1994), McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifacts by the time humans arrive on the scene.



see also

This One's for You

Henry James, This One's for You, a 2005 science fiction short story by Jack McDevitt