'Why read Jack McDevitt?' The question should be: 'Who among us is such a slow pony that s/he isn't reading McDevitt' ? - Harlan Ellison<br> Superb storytelling. - Library Journal<br> Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-colony theme. The novel delivers everything it promises with a gigantic wallop. - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)<br> Perhaps the best pure storyteller working in the field today. - Washington Post Book World