Academy

The Academy series is a series of award winning novels based on the mystery fiction and science fiction genres. It was written by multiple award winning American author named Jack Mcdevitt. The series is comprised of a total of 7 books which were released between the years 1994 and 2013. Author McDevitt has introduced the chief protagonist of this series as Priscilla Hutchins and has set the plot of each and every book of this series around the scientific adventures of this character. One of the initial books written in the series by Jack McDevitt is titled as ‘Deepsix’. It was released by the Eos publication in the year 2000. In this book, author McDevitt has described Priscilla Hutchins as leading a few space archaeologists for investigating a lost civilization on the planet called Malevia III, which is also known as Deepsix. She is depicted as having only a week’s time to carry out her investigation before the planet is going to be destroyed by a collision with a gas giant. The plot opens up in the time of the year 2204. Due to some form of terror and tragedy, the scientific team that was investigating Malevia III is forced to evacuate. After a period of 21 years, the scientists learn that this life supporting planet is going to get completed destroyed due to the invasion of a rogue gas giant in the planetary system. The gas giant is set to collide with Malevia III and if this happens, it would cause a deadly effect and would probably vanish the planet forever. And with this, the opportunity for the scientists to carry out a study on the galactic rarity will also vanish.