He has been nominated for the Nebula Award fourteen times Seeker is his only win. But when a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, Hutch finds herself back in the deepest reaches of space. His novel Seeker won the 2006 Nebula Award for Best Novel, given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. He prefers to leave ambiguities to puzzle and intrigue his readers: 'Some things are best left to the reader's very able imagination.' McDevitt's novels frequently raise questions which he does not attempt to answer.

It is the sixth novel in the Academy series, featuring Priscilla Hutchins. The mystery surrounding the destructive 'Omega Clouds' (which are introduced in The Engines of God) is left unexplored until Omega. Cauldron is a 2007 science fiction novel by American author Jack McDevitt.

Although it was initially written as a standalone novel, the main character of The Engines of God, pilot Priscilla Hutchins, has since appeared in five more books, Deepsix (2001), Chindi (2002), Omega (2003), Odyssey (2006), and Cauldron (2007). With The Engines of God (1994), McDevitt introduced the idea of a universe that was once teeming with intelligent life, but contains only their abandoned artifact by the time humans arrive on the scene. Frequently this theme is mixed with both trepidation before the unknown and a sense of wonder at the universe. This novel set the tone for many of McDevitt's following novels, which focused on making first contact. McDevitt continues to write stories with a different pacing and different focus than any other space-focused SF that Ive read. Two years later, he published his first novel, The Hercules Text, about the discovery of an intelligently conceived signal whose repercussions threaten human civilization. McDevitt's first published story was 'The Emerson Effect' in The Twilight Zone Magazine in 1981. Jack McDevitt (born 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.

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