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Originally Posted by twicefivemiles
Looking for novels/short stories that somehow or another involve a race or civilization other than our own which is now extinct/otherwise gone.
Ancient tech, dig sites, mysterious clues, you know, that sort of thing.
Said civilization can be alien or Terrestrial in origin. Does this sort of thing exist?
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a favorite, read when young
"the tetralogy Tschai, Planet of Adventure. Written by Jack Vance, it tells of the efforts of the sole survivor of the destruction of a human starship to return to Earth from the distant planet Tschai.
Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a distant planet shared by four alien, mutually hostile, advanced species (the Chasch, Wankh, Dirdir and native Pnume). On his quest to get home, he acquires two human companions, Traz Onmale, a teenage barbarian chieftain, and Ankhe at afram Anacho, an outcast Dirdirman..."
the Pnume are favorites for me,- in the dark deep naturally