Octavia Gone
Written by Jack McDevitt
Narrated by Jennifer Van Dyck
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Jack McDevitt
Jack McDevitt is the Nebula Award–winning author of The Academy series, including The Long Sunset. He attended La Salle University, then joined the Navy, drove a cab, became an English teacher, took a customs inspector’s job on the northern border, and didn’t write another word for a quarter-century. He received a master’s degree in literature from Wesleyan University in 1971. He returned to writing when his wife, Maureen, encouraged him to try his hand at it in 1980. Along with winning the Nebula Award in 2006, he has also been nominated for the Hugo Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and the Philip K. Dick Award. In 2015, he was awarded the Robert A. Heinlein Award for Lifetime Achievement. He and his wife live near Brunswick, Georgia.
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Reviews for Octavia Gone
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I'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!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Enjoyed 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. - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This 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.