Hello Folks,

At our most recent Science Fiction club meeting, we agreed to read the book The Engines of God, by Jack McDevitt, for our February 13 meeting.

It is available from BARD:

https://nlsbard.loc.gov/nlsbardprod/download/detail/srch/DB41883

The NLS synopsis reads:

Early in the twenty-third century, young Priscilla “Hutch” Hutchins serves as a space pilot for a team of archaeologists investigating a long-extinct galactic civilization. Marvelling at the monuments left on distant planets, Hutch and her colleagues confront the natural hazards of new worlds and stay one step ahead of human colonizers, as the archaeologists unravel a secret that may be the key to human survival.

There are a number of Publisher Quality versions on Bookshare, one of which is at:

https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1175707

The synopsis for this Bookshare edition reads as follows:

The first Priscilla Hutchins novel!Humans call them the Monument-Makers.
An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth, on the brink of disaster, they may hold the only key to survival for the entire human race.