Author: Jack McDevitt

Cites

• Alexander Pope (1)
  • IN: Ancient Shores (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Pretty, in amber, to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms; The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
    FROM: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, (1735), Poem, UK
• Mark Twain (1)
  • IN: Eternity Road (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I asked him how far we were from Hartford. He said he had never heard of the place.
    FROM: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, (1889), Novel, US
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Eternity Road (1997) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They came during the October of the World, Riding the twilight. To ensure that men would not forget.
    FROM: The Travels of Abraham Polk, (1997), Book, US
  • IN: Cauldron (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Out of the night they come, Raining fire and rock, Raking the cities of man, Living storms, Shaped in the Devil’s Cauldron.
    FROM: Sigma Hotel Book, (2007), Book, NULL
• Khalid Alniri (1)
  • IN: Infinity Beach (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We have always stood along a beach opening onto an infinite sea. That sea beckons us, but for ages we were limited to looking across its expanse with our telescopes and our imaginations. In time, we learned to build outriggers and we got to a few of the barrier islands. Today we have finally in our hands a true four-master, a ship that will take us beyond whatever horizons may exist.
    FROM: Khalid Alniri, The “Infinity Beach” Speech at Wesleyan, (2000), Speech, NULL