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I am looking for a particular Jack McDevitt novel, I believe set in the Alex Benedict series. It may have been a subplot or the main plot, but they find a toy-like spaceship, only to uncover near the end that it is actually a real spacecraft, used by a small butterfly-like spacefaring race.

I have looked at all my Jack McDevitt Academy and Alex Benedict series books, of which I have all except Cauldron, and I don't think it is Cauldron.

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I don't recall this book, but some searching suggests that this is probably Infinity Beach. In a snippet from a review of Infinity Beach in The New York Review of Science Fiction I found this quote:

Admirably, McDevitt's alien is truly alien; a life form resembling a butterfly and many times smaller than humans

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  • It might be worth adding that this is also published under the name Slow Lightning in (at least) the UK.
    – andrewsi
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 19:39
  • Thank you much!
    – Maribel Perez
    Commented Dec 29, 2020 at 22:47
  • @MaribelPerez You should accept this answer (by clicking the checkmark under the voting arrows in the upper left) so that future searchers know that this question has been answered.
    – DavidW
    Commented Dec 30, 2020 at 15:55

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