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# The Long Sunset (The Academy) Hardcover – April 17, 2018

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A black hole dooms a distant civilization in just a few years time - can humanity save another race?  Or will their fear win?
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 17, 2018*

The human worlds that once fostered exploration and adventure have veered into deep xenophobia, fearful of what evil germs and aliens might be lurking out in the vastness of the universe.  The expense of the interstellar exploration trips has also made politicians reluctant to greenlight further outings.  The aliens found so far haven't been very remarkable, nor high tech.The Angel statue on Iapetus, a doleful alien gazing at Saturn, and some associated monuments are the only representation of what seems to be a high tech civilization.  But what did they do, except leave art works and mysterious stelae here and there?Two new telescopes are brought online, and in the process of fine-tuning their adjustments, a brief broadcast is captured by one of them that has sound and video capability.  It's a waterfall, unlike any Earthly fall, surrounded by unknown vegetation, and there's background music reminiscent of Earth's classical music.The exploration interstellars are about to be shut down forever, but an inspired man manages to assemble a quick expedition to the constellation where the waterfall might be, a try at finding intelligent life one last time.  Priscilla Hutchins, "Hutch," pilots the last remaining interstellar from the dock as they run away from commands to shut everything down and cancel the trip.The Locarno drive carries them at high speeds toward the point of interest, and once there, they use the astronomical records to identify the right star and planet...but there isn't one there.  The landmarks recorded by the telescope aren't in the right place.  Finally it's recognized that something killed that world, the one that transmitted a scene of a beautiful waterfall to a planetary cluster light-years away.  A black hole swept at least two planets into oblivion...and it's only some sixty years away from destroying another world, a world of sea and islands, with endearing inhabitants that look like porpoises or dolphins.Hutch and three other members of the trip take the lander down to the planet for a tour, and to get a closer look at these people.  A breakdown causes them to crash in the sea, and they all get much better acquainted with the dolphin people who come to their aid.  It takes time to get the lander out of the ocean, and meanwhile the group stays with a friendly male who seems to be a pastor.  The residents help Hutch's team make contact with the interstellar above and alert the remaining member onboard that there's going to be a delay in their return.These are nice folks.  Too nice to just ignore while they die.  There's about three million of them.  Can they be moved elsewhere in their neighborhood (roughly speaking) to start over?  Hutch has already found a planet where one of the other civilizations fled from the black hole.  Can these people help the dolphin people?  Or can humanity help?

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    Some pretty inexcusable intellectual laziness
  

*by D***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 19, 2021*

I wanted to like this book. I've read some of McDevitt's other work, including in this series, with enjoyment. And this one is readable, but only just. For me, anyway, one of the problems with it is that it relies on a framework of quasi-plausibility. OK, you accept the usual science fiction memes of FTL travel and AI personalities, etc. But McDevitt glosses over the philosophical and physical science issues. It's almost better to just ignore them, like, for example Jack Vance, who just has spaceships as a given. If you're going to talk about it how they work and how they were developed in a seemingly literal minded future history background, you need to somehow come to grips with the paradoxes. McDevitt sets up situations where time dilation is higly problematical, but then just ignores the problems. Even more irritiating, to me anyway, is is total refusal to grapple with Fermi Conundrum issues, and his sloppy astronomy. He describes a globular culture as having many F, K, and G stars, and treats the narrative's encounter with a globular in the disk of the galaxy as routine. He has the characters speculate that there must be "many civilizations" in the densely packed cluster. This completely ignores the actual facts about globulars, which is that they populate the spherical halo of galaxies, so most of them are located far from the disk (only ones happening to be passing through are in the disk, and that's a tiny minority... maybe worth mentioning?). And even more problematic is that globulars' stars are so called Population II, ancient very metal-poor stars. They would not be expected to host rocky planets or give rise to terrestrial-like worlds or life. This is pretty common knowledge among people with even passing interest in astronomy. Here, and in general, he also ignores the fact that most stars are red dwarfs. When the crew (one of whom somehow qualified as an astronaut even though she didn't know what parallax is, which any ten year old with an interest in astronomy knows)....was searching for worlds that might harbor life near the scene of the black hole, they find a high percentage of F, G, and K dwarfs even though something like 70% of all stars are red dwarfs; and among these stars are a high percentage of planets very similar to Earth, even though we now know, from over 2,000 exoplanets, that planets vary greatly, and planets similar enough to Earth for humans to breathe the atmosphere, with oceans, similar gravity, etc., are EXTREMELY rare. Out of 100 stars you would expect, on average, to find NONE... you'd need a much bigger sample to have any reasonable expectation of finding any. These quibbles may seem like nitpicking, but this is supposed to be 'hard' science fiction, and it's just pure laziness to not conform to commonly understood facts.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    One of Jack's best! and that is saying something.
  

*by L***L on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 27, 2022*

I've read J. McD. for years and never gotten a real clunker.Like any author some are better than others but all have a 'voice' that resonates with me.THIS one shows a late stage mature society in flux and provides a wonderful opportunity for growth!Enjoy, I envy you!

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