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Total Eclipse

Total Eclipse

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?


“There’s an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen.”

Source: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

“How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse?”

Source: Total Eclipse (1974), Chapter 8 (p. 69)

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