The eternity artifact
(Book)

"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."

In the far future, humans occupy thousands of worlds but have found no signs of other intelligent life, until a new world, abandoned and frozen, and containing a megaplex of towers, is discovered. The Comity government assembles a group of experts, including pilot Jiendra Chang, artist Chendor Barna, and history professor Liam Fitzhugh, to investigate. Enemies of the Comity are also assembling experts, determined to accrue whatever knowledge or wealth may be gained from the new planet. Some descriptions of violence.