![]() “A terrific book! The Engines of God is science fiction in the grand tradition, an intellectual adventure and scientific mystery, with the fate of worlds at stake.” - Michael Swanwick, Hugo and Nebula award–winning author That said, glad I read it again (let's me start the remaining five books in the series)." No clue HOW I could have forgotten I read it, as it is very well done, interesting, and clever. "For the first time in my life, I realized about 70% of the way through the book that I'd read it before. ![]() Only interstellar archaeologist Richard Wald and starship pilot Priscilla Hutchins are convinced that uncovering the secrets of the monuments may be the key to survival for the entire human race. But their time is running out: Earth’s ravaged environment is quickly making it unlivable, and colonizers want to begin terraforming these abandoned worlds for human habitation. ![]() Searching for clues about the Monument-Makers, teams of twenty-third-century linguists, historians, engineers, and archaeologists have been excavating the enigmatic alien ruins on a number of planets, uncovering strange, massive false cities made of solid rock. ![]() ![]() An unknown race, they left stunning, alien statues encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy. ![]()
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