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The acclaimed classic novel and fan favorite—the far-future story of one man's quest to discover the truth behind a galactic war hero.
- Sales Rank: #146303 in Books
- Brand: Ace
- Published on: 2004-06-29
- Released on: 2004-06-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.80" h x .90" w x 4.30" l, .33 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 310 pages
- Great product!
About the Author
Jack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. He is a multiple Nebula Award finalist who lives in Georgia with his wife Maureen.
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82 of 86 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting Story...Interesting Backdrop
By themarsman
A Talent for War presents an enjoyable trek through a future history...a history with it's own figure-heads and heroes, and shows us how those people actually were. McDevitt gives us the science fiction equivalent of taking us back to the American Revolution and putting us into the heads of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. McDevitt exquisitely executes this future history through the backdrop of the protagonist, Alex Benedict, and his search for the truth about what happened to the longterm exploratory ship Tenandrome. What did the crew find that they thought they had to erase all public records of the journey, and essentially swear themselves to silence about that journey.
McDevitt's only flaw in this book is that he seems to get sidetracked a bit with minutae...who said what at this meeting or that, who did what, where...etc. Some of this was clearly needed...but he goes overboard just a bit. This detracts from the story only a little though. Mostly, I just desperately wanted to find out the answers to the mysteries McDevitt poses. A Talent for War is a really good read, McDevitt's character analyses are dead-on and consequently he does a wonderful job of making you feel what the characters feel. As long as you enjoy good storytelling this book is highly recommended to anyone, period.
52 of 56 people found the following review helpful.
A classic to read and reread.
By Fluxbyte
My personal experience of this novel has been similar to that expressed in 'Hrinwar's review. I can across it in a remainders bin in '94, one of my most fortunate finds ever. Since then I have read it pretty much every year, sometimes more. This is not from lack of other material to spend my time on but the levels that unravel as the story progresses, the sheer thrill of watching the clues come together, the intrigue built up around the historic mysteries, never fail to hold me entranced. I love this book and only wish others by the same author, or anyone else for that matter, could ignite my interest in the same way. However it would be an irrelevance to make comparisons with other works - put simply it is one of my most deeply held personal favourites and has stood the test of nine years repeated reading. A supreme example of a deeply satisfying reading experience.
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Fantastic mystery in deep space
By Tim F. Martin
_A Talent for War_ by Jack McDevitt is the first volume in the Alex Benedict series, an engrossing series by one of my favorite science fiction writers. I actually read the third volume in the series, _Seeker_, first, so this novel had additional interest to me in showing something of the origins of the two characters of the trilogy, Alex Benedict and his capable assistant Chase Kolpath, particularly how the two came to work together and their first mission as a team.
The basic premise of the series is that the two main characters are antiquities dealers in the far future, a future approximately in the 11,000 AD range, a future in which humanity has spread far and wide in this galaxy and has settled hundreds of worlds. Though contact with Earth still exists and knowledge of ancient history is still common knowledge - one of the characters in the book was a keen scholar of ancient Greek history - there are worlds (about twenty or thirty or so) that experienced the rise and fall of entire civilizations over the many centuries since they were settled, of entire cultures that arose and then vanished (or were extinguished) on distant planets in what is to us the very far future but what is to people of the present of this novel the distant past. That, and the rich history of the various worlds of human space over many thousands of years mean there is quite a bit of real estate (both temporally and physically) to explore. Alex and Chase aren't scholars but they are accomplished researchers, detectives, and despite Alex's misgivings, adventurers, able to track down obscure clues, decipher ancient texts, puzzle out primitive (to them) technology to uncover truly astonishing finds to solve ancient historical mysteries and also to make a tidy profit.
The book begins with Alex receiving the unfortunate news that his uncle, Gabriel (or Gabe) was on an interstellar vessel that failed to renter normal space and is presumed deceased. Contacted by the executors of his will, Alex found that he was the sole inheritor of his uncle's estate. In addition to title to the house he grew up in and his Gabe's vast wealth, he also inherited an archaeological mystery that his late uncle was working on, one that involved one of the greatest figures in the Confederacy, a starship commander, admiral, and war hero, a man by the name of Christopher Sim, a legendary figure that lived 200 or so years ago in the novel's past, a man part George Washington (as his actions were key in forming the modern Confederacy) and part Leonidas (he was one of the few leaders of a handful of ships that stood against an invading alien race, the Ashiyyur, largely unsupported by the other human worlds, who mythically died fighting a bitter, symbolic last stand against the enemy, his sacrifice being one that turned the tide against the aliens and united the humans). McDevitt did a great job of not only in generally giving the sense of the great depth of human history that has passed in the novel's setting but the truly legendary importance of Sim to this setting, of making him very familiar to the reader as the story progressed, conveying the excitement Alex and others felt that more remained to be discovered about him.
Evidently Alex's uncle died while trying to uncover some deeply buried, closely guarded secret regarding Christopher Sim, one that also involved Ludik Talino, a much debated figure even two hundred years later who may have been a martyr, a hero, or a vile traitor who betrayed Sim: Sim's legendary ship _Corsarius_; and a woman Sim knew and served with, formerly a scholar with a reputation as a peace activist, an expert on the Ashiyuur who against her better initial judgment became a valued member of the Resistance (as the fight against the Ashiyyur was called), a woman by the name of Leisha Tanner. Alex picks up the frustratingly incomplete trail and with the help of an artificial intelligence named Jacob and Chase Kolpath undertake something that feels like a murder mystery and also an archaeological and genealogical research project. Gripping reading, it was also enjoyable to get excerpts of treatises and first hand accounts from Sim's time, including Alex himself experiencing exciting virtual reality simulation of some of the battles Sim and his fleet fought in. Oh and someone is trying to drive Alex and Chase off the trail, possibly even trying to kill them and the alien Ashiyyur may be involved, a species that still exists in great tension with the Confederacy (indeed it is pretty much a Cold War-that could turn -hot war situation in the novel). Exciting, thought provoking, and very well written, I really enjoyed _A Talent for War_.
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