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Original Title:	Omega
ISBN:	0441012108 (ISBN13: 9780441012107)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Academy #4
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004), John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2004)

Omega (The Academy #4)

Jack McDevitt

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 493 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 4131 Users | 154 Reviews

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Title	:	Omega (The Academy #4)
Author	:	Jack McDevitt
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 493 pages
Published	:	October 26th 2004 by Ace (first published November 2003)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera

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I'm of two minds on this book.

It's pretty damn awesome when it comes to characters and the gentle push toward an alternate Star Trek kind of universe with almost no posturing and no overpowered gunships. The dearth of alien species is a nice touch, making it more of an archeological mystery. These future humans happen to be peaceful, too, for once, and most of their principled actions reflect those of the Federation but there's also a more realistic bending of the rules, too.

Enter this book. The Omega clouds are absolutely immense intergalactic clouds of nanotech that spike huge energies and are apparently programmed to seek out any intelligent life. Cool, right? It might explain the lack of aliens. The next world in the path of one of these happens to be pre-industrial LIVING aliens! Oops. And the cloud will reach them during this novel. Oops.

Enter conflict, a race to save an alien species, provide tons of commentary on general human stupidity and opportunism. Hey, look, let's grab as much as we can of their civ to sell because they're all about to become instant relics!

It sounds like a really good episode of Trek, right? Right. Well, no complaints there. I never expected total and complete originality out of these. Just a careful and methodical worldbuilding, care and devotion to characters, and a hopeful outlook despite everything. Including a very regular death toll on every single outing. (Wait... redshirts?)

So what's my problem? We get a fully developed alien culture here including PoVs from these guys, right down to a fully religious world-build and science-debates and a huge survival thing.

Well... I'll be honest. As long as we stuck with the humans I was pretty invested. The aliens? ... not so much. The whole self-aware cartoon character nod and the way we humans fell for how cute these buck-toothed aliens... well... I guess I can see it but I didn't really appreciate it.

It might just be me. The commentary was fairly clever but the way it was pulled off? I don't think McDevitt went far enough. Or the amount he did go was a bit too far for the pacing and investment I was supposed to have in saving these guys.

Too much of the novel was slightly meh. Not a lot of meh. Just slightly. The rest was engaging and interesting. :) Hence the four stars. But this is pretty much on the same level as the second Academy novel for me.

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McDevitt is a tad frustrating. Hes a highly competent writer and one cant fault his science or his characterisation. The Academy novels (of which this is the fourth) have been highly enjoyable and Im sure there are legions of readers out there who want more of Priscilla Hutch Hutchins, Academy pilot and now, somewhat older, in an executive role within the Academy itself. The Omega Clouds agents of destruction which seem to be able to recognise right angles and other signs of intelligent life

Another good story of the Academy series. Some years after the last with some better technology in place and exploring farther away from home. This book returns to the main theme of book #1 and apparently nicely resolves it. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Digger was a detestable character for me.

I had already decided I won't read McDevitt anymore, but then I came across this book and decided to give him one more chance, because the premise sounded very intriguing. But the writing style was so tedious it took me several weeks to read this thick novel. Furthermore, I was annoyed by these aliens: they were just far too human-like! The acted like humans and their language was very human (its grammar "resembled Latin"(!!)), and apparently its phonology was super easy for (English-speaking)

I'm of two minds on this book. It's pretty damn awesome when it comes to characters and the gentle push toward an alternate Star Trek kind of universe with almost no posturing and no overpowered gunships. The dearth of alien species is a nice touch, making it more of an archeological mystery. These future humans happen to be peaceful, too, for once, and most of their principled actions reflect those of the Federation but there's also a more realistic bending of the rules, too. Enter this book.

It's hard to focus on reading for me at the moment, so I ended up reading this book a couple of pages at a time, sometimes with weeks of not reading anything. It's possible that that influenced my rating, but I don't really think so. This book simply does not have what the first and third books in the series had ("The Engines of God" and "Chindi"). There are no ancient archeological mysteries to solve and whether the ultimate quest of saving the cuddly aliens succeeds or not isn't going to

This is the fourth of six books in Jack McDevitt's "Academy" series, and it is by far the best up to this point (haven't read 5 or 6 yet). I am a big fan of the overall series because of the believable way it handles humanity's lack of contact with alien species in the 23rd century - we either find them too early or too late. I have summarized the first three books of the series as "Archaeologists in Space," and while it has its issues (spaceships apparently leave Earth with unlimited fuel,