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  • Jack McDevitt's short story "Indomitable" follows a boy and his father as they tour a space museum in a future Calgary.

    REVIEW: Jim Baen's Universe #12 2008

  • "Indomitable" by Jack McDevitt is a very short story that almost perfectly distills an important aspect of the psyche.

    Baen's Universe does fun, poignant Karen Burnham 2008

  • "Indomitable" by Jack McDevitt is a very short story that almost perfectly distills an important aspect of the psyche.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Karen Burnham 2008

  • He talks about a lot of stuff including why he decided to come back to the character of Jair Ohmsford from Wishsong: I’d done a short story called 'Indomitable' a few years back for a Legends collection, and it was an attempt to pick up on what happened with Jair Ohmsford, who was one of the two main characters in Wishsong of Shannara.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Michael May 2008

  • He talks about a lot of stuff including why he decided to come back to the character of Jair Ohmsford from Wishsong: I’d done a short story called 'Indomitable' a few years back for a Legends collection, and it was an attempt to pick up on what happened with Jair Ohmsford, who was one of the two main characters in Wishsong of Shannara.

    The Awesome List: animated Batman movie, Shannara comic, Burn Notice DVD, Jungle Girl movies, the JLA movie, and more. Michael May 2008

  • As the yacht passed along the hull of the Indomitable, I could see a gaping hole where the propulsion section used to be.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • I managed to snag the pod cleanly and towed it toward the escaping forward end of the Indomitable.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • The maneuvering thrusters of the main portion of the Indomitable fired, and it began to move forward.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • There was still one battleship in service, the Vanguard, a turreted shape I can just remember seeing through a North Sea mist, but the biggest surprise was the number of aircraft carriers: Ark Royal, Eagle, Indomitable, Illustrious, Implacable, Indefatigable, Formidable … their bulldog names went on over two pages.

    A British fleet with no aircraft carrier. Unthinkable! Ian Jack 2010

  • Indomitable Lion: Wells Tower, freshly anointed as one of the NYer's 20 Under 40, also took the New York Public Library's Young Lions prize for 2010 (for fiction by a writer under 35) for the completely fabulous story collection, Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned, topping fellow 20/40 members C.E. Morgan and Philipp Meyer, as well as Jedediah Berry and Katie Kitamura.

    News Junkies 2010

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  • HMS Indomitable and HMS Rights of Man in Billy Budd

    October 23, 2010

  • Bilby Budd? Never heard of him.

    October 23, 2010

  • Sadly enough, that's how I read it just now, too.

    Say... wasn't there a film a few years ago based on Billy Budd? I think the sailors were in the French Foreign Legion. Hm. Melville... French film... obviously a classic.

    October 23, 2010

  • The Indomitable was also named 'Bellipotent' in some drafts of the famous Melville novel. The classic was not published until over 25 years after Melville's death. It is a type of an 'unfinished' novella.

    October 23, 2010