![]() ![]() ![]() But those huge mysterious artifacts do arrive later in the book. I sounded a bit pedestrian to me, lacking some sense of wonder of the mystery and the unknown. However, McDevitt takes the associations with archeology very literally, and talks about an alien statue and about a Greek-like alien temple, complete with pillars and hieroglyphs of walking reptiles. When I think about alien artifacts, I expect very mysterious and rather creepy objects, like the monolith of Clarke’s book, or the incomprehensible alien ship in Rendezvous with Rama (1972), also by Clarke. Before starting the book, I was immediately reminded of the book 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. In the billions of years that the Universe existed, why would aliens evolve to intelligence and industry in the same few thousand years when we are alive? It is more likely that intelligent civilizations have come and gone, and we only find the remains. Humanity has reached the stars and found the mysterious ruins of alien civilizations around them. The Engines of God is a novel about interstellar archeology. ![]()
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