Deepsix

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Harper Collins, Jun 15, 2010 - Fiction - 528 pages

In the year 2204, tragedy and terror forced a scientific team to prematurely evacuate Maleiva III. Nineteen years later, a rogue moon hurtling through space is about to obliterate the last opportunity to study this rare, life-supporting planet. With less than three weeks left before the disaster, superluminal pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins -- the only even remotely qualified professional within lightyears of the ill-fated planet -- must lead a small scientific team to the surface to glean whatever they can about its lifeforms and lost civilizations before time runs out. But catastrophe awaits when they are stranded on this strange and complex world of puzzles and impossibilities. And now Hutch and her people must somehow survive on a hostile world going rapidly mad -- as the clock ticks toward apocalypse for a doomed enigma now called...

 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
15
Section 3
29
Section 4
43
Section 5
59
Section 6
79
Section 7
94
Section 8
111
Section 21
300
Section 22
309
Section 23
323
Section 24
338
Section 25
345
Section 26
355
Section 27
365
Section 28
375

Section 9
133
Section 10
148
Section 11
165
Section 12
177
Section 13
190
Section 14
215
Section 15
226
Section 16
240
Section 17
256
Section 18
270
Section 19
283
Section 20
294
Section 29
384
Section 30
392
Section 31
408
Section 32
422
Section 33
433
Section 34
453
Section 35
462
Section 36
481
Section 37
493
Section 38
502
Section 39
512
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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.