Book description
Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international
space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced
civilization in the universe. Tragically, however, the Draconians are
extinct and have been for a hundred thousand years. What mysterious
disaster destroyed man's nearest neighbour in the colossal emptiness of
space? And will the same fate befall Earth? The answers, as Earth
degenerates into squabbles, paranoia and self-destruction, are vital.
But how to begin the almost insuperable task of cracking the enigma of a
long-buried and utterly alien culture? John Brunner (1934-1995) was a
prolific British SF writer. In 1951, he published his first novel,
Galactic Storm, at the age of just 17, and went on to write dozens of
novels under his own and various house names until his death in 1995 at
the Glasgow Worldcon. He won the Hugo Award and the British Science
Fiction Award for Stand on Zanzibar (a regular contender for the `best
SF novel of all time') and the British Science Fiction Award for The
Jagged Orbit.
