Time Travelers Never Die
Shel Shelbourne is dead and buried. His friend Dave knows this for sure: He’s just returned home from Shel’s funeral. So how come he finds Shel standing—alive and well—in his living room?
It all starts when Shel’s father, Michael, a famous physicist, mysteriously vanishes without a trace. Soon after, Shel receives a letter with a key and Michael’s final request—destroy the three devices he stashed in a safe deposit box, devices he invented. But Shel, being a physicist himself, isn’t inclined to dispose of the gadgets without knowing what they do. A little tinkering...and he finds himself transported across time and space!
Letting Dave in on the secret of the Q-Pods, as Michael dubbed them, Shel sets out to find his father. While he and Dave explore the most significant places and events in human history—from Renaissance Italy to the Library at Alexandria to Selma, Alabama—they find time to get rich, find romance and visit the year 30,000 AD. But their awesome adventure also has some major-league downsides....
With Time Travelers Never Die, Nebula winner Jack McDevitt reminds us what he does best—thrilling SF adventures that are at once brainy and stylish, and yet wonderfully down to earth.
Hardcover : 384 pages
Publisher: Ace Sci Fi & Fantasy/Mbr Penguin Putnam ( November 03, 2009 )
Item #: 12-792083
ISBN: 9780441017638
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Product Weight: 15.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
C'mon, Jack! 
February 17, 2012
Not bad, but a little slow and flat. The characters were not well developed. The premise was good. I've read far worse, but I expected better from this fine author whose many books I have greatly enjoyed. He has done much better.
Reviewer: Jesse
Pretty Good
January 23, 2011
Science fiction usually bores me. This book did at first, too, but then I started getting in to it. After it sucked me in, I didn't put it down until the end. Parts of it were a little bit confusing, but after spending a little bit of time thinking about it and looking back I was able to get things pretty straight. I'm glad I read it.
Reviewer: Alibear
Intersting, but...
July 20, 2010
Time travel stories are among my fav's. This was my first McDevitt novel and it's good but confusing at times (even for time travel). I really can't see him as an Isaac Asimov successor and I doubt that I'll read him anytime soon.
Reviewer: Timothy B
Very Good
February 02, 2010
I have yet to read anything by Jack McDevitt that I did not like. Time Travelers Never Die is another good one. The time travel makes this one a little harder to keep up with everything going on, but it's worth it to flip back a few pages to keep it all together. I will reread this again after some time has passed
Reviewer: Joe D
A Disappointment
January 29, 2010
In my mind Jack McDevitt seems to be the logical successor to Isaac Asimov; his books have consistently captivated my imagination with exciting plots and interesting characters. In spite of this book I still have high hopes for his future novels!
This book has neither an exciting plot nor interesting characters; I was surprised and disappointed but I stuck it out and finished the book. It's almost as if he didn't really know what to do with his storyline and tried experimenting with several alternatives, none of which worked successfully; some sections were particularly painful and preachy.
I would not be sorry if he put this series behind him and got back to what he does best; I don't think I have to spell that out to any McDevitt fan.
Reviewer: David B
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