Series
Alex Benedict
Jack McDevitt · 9 novels · 3 novelettes · 1 short story · 1987–2023
Alex Benedict is an antiques dealer and part-time interstellar investigator, generations removed from Earth's first starfaring age, who keeps stumbling into forgotten history through the objects and ruins he trades in. A Talent for War opens the series with his search for what his vanished uncle was really investigating before a doomed voyage, uncovering a buried chapter of an old human-alien war. Jack McDevitt built a long-running series, narrated by Benedict's pilot and partner Chase Kolpath, around this mix of archaeology, mystery, and deep time.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Stats
By decade
- 1980s4
- 1990s0
- 2000s3
- 2010s5
- 2020s1
Shape
9 novels · 3 novelettes · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:science fictionspace explorationspacefar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
Grim and intense: 58% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book12 of 13 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Sunrisedarkest
- Dutchmanbrightest · most intense
- A Talent for Warcalmest