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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 Format: Kindle Book Label: Ace Manufacturer: Ace Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: March 03, 2007 Publisher: Ace Release Date: March 03, 2007 Studio: Ace Related Items: Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony's ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase 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 very heart of danger. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - not worth your time, reallyI usually rely on Hugo and Nebula award-winners to help me wade through the mediocre science fiction / fantasy, and get to the good stuff. But I feel let down in this case: This book is actually mystery, and a tepid mystery at that (slow and non-clever). The science fiction trappings ranged from unremarkable to underwhelming ('sorry, our bureacracy deletes reports after 3yrs', 'in an age where messages take as long to travel between systems as people do, you might as well visit in person than ... Read More Rating: - Another great McDevitt Sci-Fi!He's one of the best writers in modern science fiction. He explains his technology somewhat, but not to the point you need an advanced degree in physics to understand (that might even hurt!) and has very character driven stories. Rating:  - Predictable But EnjoyableThe third novel in the Alex Benedict series "Seeker" once again sees Alex and his faithfull assistant Chase Kolpath hot on the trail of a lost colony. While I did enjoy Seeker, and love the Alex Benedict books especially I am finding them a little predictable now, as the author basically has his characters doing the same thing over again with only a slightly diffirent objective each time. It also bugs me a little that the last two novels, Seeker and Polaris have been told from the viwepoint ... Read More Rating:  - When you travel so far that "...even God can't find you..."Some 9000 years in the past, a group of humans decide to leave a repressive Earth government behind, and outfit two interstellar ships, the Seeker and the Bremerhaven, to take them far beyond the eyes, influence, and memories of Earth. It worked. The ships disappeared. The secrets were never broken. The "Margolians", as they were called, became mythic, and part of Earth lore. Until the Seeker was found by treasure hunters: Alex Benedict and pilot Chase Kolpath, both ... Read More Rating: - Twist near the end saves this from 3 starsI have to say this novel is not very interesting due to flat characters and uninspiring plot (at least in the first 2/3 of the book). The writing leaves a lot to be desired, reading it is like reading guidebook to a RPG game, and apparently investigating a lost ship involves talking to a lot of people and asking endless questions. It also unnerves me that human civilization 10,000 years in the future remains essentially the same as today's US society, that's just not believable. Usually I can ... Read More 
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