The engines of God [sound recording] / by Jack McDevitt.
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SoundPublisher number: DD5800 | Recorded BooksPublication details: Ashland, Or. : Blackstone Audio ; Prince Frederick, MD : Distributed by Recorded Books, [2013], p2009.Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1433223368
- 9781433223365
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Main Library | Audiobook | SF/FANT McDevitt Jack | Available | 33111008294239 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Humans call them Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning, alien statues encoded with strange inscriptions that defy translation scattered on distant planets throughout the galaxy. 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. 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. 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.
Compact disc.
Continued by: Omega.
In container (17 cm.).
Previously released, p2009.
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Narrated by Tom Weiner.
Two hundred years ago, humans made a stunning discovery in the far reaches of the solar system: a huge statue of an alien creature, with an inscription that defied all efforts at translation. Now, as faster-than-light drive opens the stars to exploration, humans are finding other relics of the race they call the Monument-Makers--each different, and each heartbreakingly beautiful. But except for a set of footprints on Jupiter's moon Iapetus, there is no trace of the enigmatic race that has left them behind. Then a team of scientists working on a dead world discover an ominous new image of the Monument-Makers. Somehow it all fits with other lost civilizations, and possibly with Earth's own future. And distant past. But Earth itself is on the brink of ecological disaster--there is no time to search for answers. Even to a question that may hold the key to survival for the entire human race.