Total Eclipse

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Summary: A Haunting Tale
Review: John Brunner weaves a haunting tale of how thirty people attack the nearly insuperable very good copy of this rare booktask of unriddling the mysteries of a long-buried culture. Was it a fatal virus, an internecine war, a religion of lunatic brutality, or a deleterious mutation that destroyed an entire civilization? And when the riddle is finally unravelled will it provide a solution to human problems? Will the answer reach Earth in time?

In the year 2020, an international space team, exploring Sigma Draconis, nineteen light years from earth, discovers the remains of a highly advanced society that has left behind as its most spectacular artifact the largest telescope imaginable.