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Artifact Mass market paperback - 1986
by Gregory Benford
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- Title Artifact
- Author Gregory Benford
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom, New York
- Date 1986
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0812500601I5N00
- ISBN 9780812500608 / 0812500601
- Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
ArtifactA small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaean tomb.An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age,its purpose, and its origins are unknown.Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft andespionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war.Its substance has scientists baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.It is mystery and madness -- an enigma with no equal in recordedhistory. It is mankind's greatest discovery ... and worst nightmare.It may have already obliterated a world. Ours is next.A small cube of black rock has been unearthed in a 3500-year-old Mycenaen tomb.An incomprehensible object in an impossible place; its age, its purpose, and its origins are unknown.Its discovery has unleashed a global storm of intrigue, theft and espionage, and is pushing nations to the brink of war.Its substance has scientist baffled. And the miracle it contains does not belong on this Earth.It is mystery and madness-an enigma with no equal in recorded history. It is mankind's greatest discovery...and worst nightmare.It may have already obliterated a world. Ours is next.
First line
Deep inside the tomb they barely heard the snarl of an approaching vehicle.