The Engines Of God (Academy - Book 1) Av Jack Mcdevitt

<p><b>''No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas'' Washington Post Book World</b><br><br>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. <br><br>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. <br><br>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 answe