# The Engines of God (Academy – Book 1)

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- Authors: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-mcdevitt)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-08-15

## Description

'No one writing today is better than McDevitt at combining galaxy-spanning adventure with the genuine novel of ideas' Washington Post Book World 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.

## Editions

### The Engines of God (Academy – Book 1)

- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-14-7220-319-9
- Published: 2013-08-15
- Language: en_GB

### The Engines of God (Academy – Book 1)

- Publisher: headline
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7220-320-5
- Published: 2013-08-15
- Language: en_GB