Oh shoot, I’d misremembered Charles Sheffield’s Heritage series as being by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Huge impossible megastructures in space left behind by unknowable beings who may just have had a goofy sense of humor.
Higher Education and the rest of that series hit me at just the right age.
Sharing my 2025 reading list for the curious (plenty of scifi)
Oh shoot, I’d misremembered Charles Sheffield’s Heritage series as being by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Huge impossible megastructures in space left behind by unknowable beings who may just have had a goofy sense of humor.
Higher Education and the rest of that series hit me at just the right age.