Across a Billion Years

First edition (publ. The Dial Press)
Cover art by Emanuel Schongut

Across a Billion Years is a 1969 science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.

Plot

Set in the year 2375, it follows Tom Rice, a young archaeologist attached to a two-year dig on the planet of Highby V. He is searching for artifacts belonging to a long-lost and ancient race known simply as The High Ones. Throughout known space, details of this billion-year old civilization have been uncovered on many planets. What seems like a fairly straightforward expedition becomes a galactic odyssey when an artifact never seen before is uncovered. This device hints that perhaps the High Ones are not extinct at all. But, if they are not, then where are they? And will this lead to the culmination of Mankind’s greatest challenge or greatest disaster?

External links

Across a Billion Years, by Robert Silverberg, SFReader review

Bibliography of Robert Silverberg

Novels	Revolt on Alpha C The Shrouded Planet Starman's Quest The Dawning Light Collision Course The Seed of Earth Time of the Great Freeze Conquerors from the Darkness The Gate of Worlds Planet of Death Thorns Those Who Watch The Time Hoppers The Man in the Maze Hawksbill Station The Masks of Time Downward to the Earth Across a Billion Years Nightwings To Live Again Up the Line Tower of Glass Son of Man The Second Trip The World Inside A Time of Changes The Book of Skulls Dying Inside Shadrach in the Furnace Gilgamesh the King Gilgamesh in the Outback Nightfall The Face of the Waters Kingdoms of the Wall The Positronic Man Starborne Roma Eterna

Short story collections	Lest We Forget Thee Earth The Cube Root of Uncertainty

Anthologies edited	The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964 New Dimensions 1 The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two Epoch Strange Gifts Alpha 1 Alpha 2 Alpha 3 Alpha 4 Alpha 5 Alpha 6 Alpha 7 Alpha 8 Alpha 9 Dawn of Time The Best of Randall Garrett Legends Legends II Far Horizons Deep Space: Eight Stories of Science Fiction

Non-fiction	Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations

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