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Fiction

Pholus

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2. A stretch, and by far not my favorite SF but there is

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Mon Jul 15, 2013, 03:41 PM

Jul 2013

Julian May's "Saga of the Exiles" which starts with "The Many Colored Land"

For some insane reason, the "Galactic Milieu" decides to send convicts back millions of years on a one-way time travel exile with no technology and sterilized so that no procreation is possible. The arrivals find that there are a couple groups of aliens camped out on Earth already.

I never finished it, though that could have just been teenaged Pholus' impatience with antiheroes. Maybe I will try again.

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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