Science Fiction Aficionados discussion

Hello and welcome back to the series read of Jack McDevitt's Academy series, featuring the ongoing adventures of Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins. June's read is book 7 in the series: Starhawk!

Here's an interesting quote about the author that my best friend Wikipedia just told me about:

McDevitt has a (probably unintentional) tendency to give the impression that his novels will go in one direction and then take them in a different direction. Or possibly his background is so well thought out, that throw away lines, or subplots, or minor characters, have enough information behind them to make the reader want to see their story as much as the main plot of the book. While slightly annoying, this is, I've decided, a strength of McDevitt's writing since it shows the depth of his created worlds.

- Steven H. Silver, The SF Site