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Fiction

raccoon

(31,517 posts) Mon Jul 15, 2013, 03:28 PM Jul 2013

Any SF novels/stories dealing with an advanced civilization on earth that ceased to exist before [View all]

recorded history? It might have been destroyed by some apocalyptic event and nobody knew about it for
centuries...maybe then someone found some artifacts....

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Any SF novels/stories dealing with an advanced civilization on earth that ceased to exist before [View all] raccoon Jul 2013 OP

Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods" sort of does that. Too speculative to be a science book arcane1 Jul 2013 #1

I thought answering this one would be easy.. Moe Shinola Oct 2013 #4

A stretch, and by far not my favorite SF but there is Pholus Jul 2013 #2

There is also Pohl's "Heechee saga" Pholus Jul 2013 #3

Not that I happen to know of. SheilaT Oct 2013 #5

Nucular (sic) waste, maybe, would remain 65 million years from now? Good question. raccoon Oct 2013 #6

I knew the title, and got the author by going to Amazon, SheilaT Oct 2013 #7