I read this a couple of weeks ago and it's really stuck with me. It's a fascinating tale of mystery and warnings.
It's a wonderful story: a strange man who admits the name he gives - R. C. Christian - is not real. He asks a granite finishing company to build a series of 20-ton granite obelisks, each engraved with a series of messages. The plans he leaves to guide the development are so complex that the company has to hire an astrophysicist to help them. The messages are written in several languages, and are instructions for the re-building of civilisation following its demise. The stones have holes cur in them that mean at 12 noon every day, the sun shines on a calendar showing the correct current day. That's just one of the features - read on at Wikipedia for more. It's great stuff :)
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