Raymond F. Jones 4 hr 5 min read

When interplanetary flight comes, imagine the challenge to archaeology, relics of a race extinct half a million years, so advanced they held the secret of restoring life. And one can be brought back.

Raymond F. Jones's 1951 novel is a gripping first-contact and space-opera tale of a resurrected ancient. Sharp, imaginative golden-age SF. Read it for a rousing full-length story where humanity revives a being dead for five hundred millennia, and unleashes an intelligence whose powers and purposes dwarf our own.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

4 hr 5 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).