Across a Billion Years, Robert Silverberg
Across a Billion Years, Robert Silverberg
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Across a Billion Years

Author: Robert Silverberg

Narrator: Alex Knox

Unabridged: 6 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/10/2020


Synopsis

A team of space archaeologists makes an astonishing discovery about an ancient alien race in this science fiction tale from "a master of his craft" (Los Angeles Times).

Graduate student Tom Rice is thrilled to embark on his first deep-space archeological expedition. He is part of a team from Earth, venturing out in search of artifacts from a civilization that ruled the universe many millennia ago. Called the High Ones, the members of this long-gone society left tantalizing clues about their history and culture scattered throughout space. One such clue, a "message cube" containing footage of the ancient ones, is more interesting than all of the others combined. It seems to indicate that the High Ones aren't extinct after all—and just like that, Tom Rice's archeological mission has become an intergalactic manhunt, one filled with ever-increasing danger that will send the explorers hurtling headlong into the greatest adventure—and peril—of their lives.

About Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg is one of science fiction's most beloved writers, and the author of such contemporary classics as Dying Inside, Downward to the Earth, and Lord Valentine's Castle. He is a past president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the winner of five Nebula Awards and five Hugo Awards. In 2004 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America presented him with the Grand Master Award. Silverberg is one of twenty-nine writers to have received that distinction.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Edward on April 15, 2012

Across a Billion Years, by Robert Silverberg Year first published: 1969 Review by Ed McKeown Scattered throughout the globe of human-occupied space is evidence of a civilization that bestrode the galaxy before humanity was born. Now, a strange device has been discovered that shows the details of tha......more

Goodreads review by Chip on April 21, 2015

Typical of your 1960s juvenile book. A good amount of action considering the book is about a group of archaeologists. Delivery is a bit distracting since it takes the form of a really long dictated letter from fraternal twin brother to sister. Science is really soft and dated but the point of the st......more

Goodreads review by Delia on January 27, 2020

Amazing Premise -- 50s Sci-Fi Writing & Disturbung Sexual Attitudes! Robert Silverberg is one of those Masters of SF that I never really read much of aside from a few short stories. Having read this, a 1969 novel about an archaeological expedition to find a race of aliens over a Billion years older t......more

Goodreads review by Robert on January 08, 2017

Billions and Billions By Bob Gelms I haven’t thought about Robert Silverberg for quite a while. He is a sci-fi writer extraordinaire. In 1969 he wrote this week’s book, Across A Billion Years. It was out of print for a while but re-released last year in paperback. A few months ago, the e-book was rel......more

Goodreads review by Themistocles on August 13, 2017

I love Silverberg. But I guess even a great writer will write a bad book once in a while. The premise of the book is very intriguing and would allow for some really grand things, but Silverberg botched it, unfortunately. He builds expectations up, just to let them fall flat on their face. What's the m......more