Seeker

Alex Benedict, #3

by Jack McDevitt

First edition, 360 pages

English language

Published November 2005 by Ace.

ISBN:: 978-0-441-01329-6
OCLC Number:: 60798500
ISFDB ID:: 179088
Goodreads:: 1148514

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"Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. On a distant planet, the voyagers established a colony they named Margolia. Then they and the colony disappeared from recorded history." "Thousands of years later, the legendary status of Margolia has made it the new Atlantis - and of special interest to antiquities dealer Alex Benedict when he comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and Chase Kolpath follow a deadly trail to the Seeker - strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the center of the mystery that is Margolia - …

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JayBird76 reviewed Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace science fiction)

Great Read!

5 stars

Seeker is the third Alex Benedict novel from Jack McDevitt. We follow Alex on a new adventure from the viewpoint of his assistant, Chase Kolpath. Alex and Chase face harrowing circumstances as they search for a lost colony that left Earth over 9,0000 years ago.

A small cup with a mysterious name and logo on it turned up at their antiquities business, Rainbow. From there, they must find out where the cup came from and that leads to an adventure, and payout, of a lifetime.

I enjoyed the story, but it felt like a copy of the previous two books with the details changed. Alex and Chase have to dodge assassins and saboteurs to find their prize. I really liked that Chase got to spend so much time with the Mutes while she was doing her research. It gave me a lot of perspective about them and they’re not so …

I didn’t quite like the ending of this one. As a reader, I like it when the ending is tied up in a neat bow, but this one involves a new plot twist that just ends. It left me wanting more resolution to the story and I hope to get that as I start the next book in the series.

Over all, I highly recommend this book if you’re a Jack McDevitt fan or a hard sci-fi fan.

scifijack reviewed Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace science fiction)

Review of 'Seeker' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

McDevitt won an award for this book; it's the third in a long series but I read it stand-alone. It's terrific. The discovery of a souvenir cup (!) leads to the most profound discovery in human history, and the layers upon layers, events upon events, actions, reactions and inaction in-between is masterfully written. Again with McDevitt's starting with the acorn of a premise: What if they found an artifact from a ship thought missing thousands of years ago? I need to learn to write that way.