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Jack McDevitt (born 1935) is an award-winning American Science Fiction Author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make Contact with Alien races, and with Archaeology or Xenoarchaeology . McDevitt's first published story was "The Emerson Effect" in '' Twilight Zone '' in 1981. Two years later, he published his first novel, ''The Hercules Text'', about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human Civilization . This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt's following novels, which focused on making first contact. Frequently this theme is mixed with both trepidation before the unknown and a sense of wonder at the universe. 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 Artifact s by the time humans arrive on the scene. Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of ''The Engines of God'', pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in four more books, ''Deepsix'' (2001), ''Chindi'' (2002), ''Omega'' (2003), and ''Odyssey'' (2006). The mystery surrounding the destructive "Omega Clouds" (which are introduced in ''The Engines of God'') is left unexplored until ''Omega''. Author's Comment: ''Omega'' McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer. He prefers to leave ambiguities to puzzle and intrigue his readers: "Some things are best left to the reader's very able imagination." The Author Comments: ''Omega'' His novel ''Seeker'' won the 2006 Nebula Award , given by the Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers Of America . He has been nominated for the Nebula award thirteen times; this is his first win. Nebula winner BIOGRAPHY McDevitt went to '' and realized I could never write at that level, and therefore I should find something else to do. I joined the Navy , drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a Customs inspector's job on the northern border, and didn't write another word for a quarter-century." He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. As of 2007, McDevitt lives on St. Simons Island , Georgia . BIBLIOGRAPHY Novels, series
Novels, stand-alone
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