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    Octavia Gone
    Octavia Gone
    Octavia Gone
    Audiobook11 hours

    Octavia Gone

    Written by Jack McDevitt

    Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck

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    After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe finally makes his triumphant return to reunite with Alex and Chase and retrieve a possibly alien artifact-which may lead them to solve the greatest archaeological mystery of their careers, in the eighth installment of the Alex Benedict series. After his return from space, Gabe is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead-just as Alex and Chase are trying to relearn how to live and work without him. But when a seemingly alien artifact goes missing from Gabe's old collection, it grants the group a chance to dive into solving the mystery of its origins as a team, once again. When a lead on the artifact is tied to a dead pilot's sole unrecorded trip, another clue seems to lead to one of the greatest lingering mysteries of the age: the infamous disappearance of a team of scientists aboard a space station orbiting a black hole-the Amelia Earhart of their time. With any luck, Alex, Chase, and Gabe may be on the trail of the greatest archaeological discovery of their careers. In Blame it on the Aliens, Nebula Award winner McDevitt, who Stephen King has called "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke," has created another terrific science fiction mystery in his beloved Alex Benedict series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781980016458
    Author

    Jack McDevitt

    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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    • 5/5
      I'm a McDevitt fan. I enjoyed Ancient Shores and the Academy Series, but not so much the Alex Benedict Series, at least not until I listened to Octavia Gone. This one is well-plotted and it moves along at just the right speed. Toward the end, the reader is confronted with some knotty ethical issues. At some points I had to stop the recording and take time to think about these. Near the end I think Alex et al made an incorrect decision, which would however have ended the book prematurely had they followed my line of thought. I was quite engaged by the plot of this book, and I certainly wasn't bored. Highly recommeded!
    • 4/5
      Enjoyed the mystery of the missing Olivia. This book focused more on Chase than anyone else, I loved that. The A.I discovery was amazing and sad at the same time. Belle has grown up, curious...
      If you like mystery and Archaeology, wormholes and philosophy then give Octavia Gone a try.
    • 2/5
      This is the 5th (of 8) Alex Benedict novels I've read and I think it will be the last.There are two mysteries to solve in this novel. 1) what happened to an interesting artifact, which appears to be entirely alien, that Benedict and company had in their possession some years ago; and 2) what happened to the Octavia, a space station orbiting a black hole looking for a wormhole? How do they tie together? The guy who owned the artifact was on the space station when it disappeared.Alex Benedict runs a company called Rainbow, which specializes in selling interstellar archeological artifacts. They generally act as brokers for the owners. Apparently eBay hasn't survived 9,000 years into the future. They also handle the odd cultural artifact (like a lamp once owned by a comic dead some 7,000 years but still in reruns).The book is mostly a boring recitation of the day-to-day operations of Rainbow, as told by Chase Kolpath, Alex's assistant and starship captain (yes, Alex owns his own starship). Chase puts a lamp up for sale, Chase does some accounting, she watches a talk show, she has a cup of coffee. In between these thrilling events, she occasionally takes Alex or Gabe (Alex's partner) on a mission to interstellar space, or maybe just across town, to chase down leads on the two mysteries. As if the day-to-day stuff wasn't dull enough, chasing down leads is even duller. They have no real theory on the artifact and 3 theories on the Octavia but none, and I mean none of these leads results in moving the plot forward. "Well, I guess that didn't turn out" is repeated often.Chase also has a tepid love affair with a local rare book dealer which has all the spark of a wet firecracker.Do they ever resolve either mystery? Well, mystery #1, the weird artifact, does sort of get solved, by following a tenuous chain of coincidences. But ultimately, they can't actually tell anybody what they find.The Octavia mystery is also resolved, in the last few pages, by doing something they should have done much earlier in the book. It's also a trick McDevitt used in the last Benedict book. Flying off in their faster than light vehicle to get in front of a radio beam sent from the station before it vanished. As it turns out, none of the theories was right but the actual fate of the Octavia was even more outrageous than any of the theories. And they can't tell anybody about it either.I'm really sorry I wasted my time on this.