Isso soa como se fosse a trilogia "Engines of Light" do autor Ken MacLeod, consistindo de Cosmonaut Keep , Dark Light , e Engine City .
Esta revisão do terceiro livro dá um exemplo do contato da humanidade com uma raça que eles chamam de "os deuses" que são bactérias colonizadoras de asteróides:
Engines of Light began in 2000 with Cosmonaut Keep and continued the following year with Dark Light. The series tells the millennia-spanning tale of humankind's contact with a race of "extremophile nanobacteria" -- which the Earthlings call simply "the gods" -- that exist in asteroids and cometary masses throughout the galaxy, linked into a vast cosmic mind of "exquisite sensitivity." The story centers on a group of 21st century cosmonauts propelled by the gods to the planet Mingulay in a region of space 100,000 light years away from Earth. There the cosmonauts find a "Second Sphere" inhabited by deracinated human populations, their planets linked by starfaring giant squid called the kraken and humanoid dinosaurs called the saurs.
Outra revisão dá a informação de que os saurs vieram da Terra e se conectam muito bem à outra parte da sua memória:
Os Nova Babilônios são humanos de um período anterior que foram trazidos para o planeta antes dos personagens principais.Many writers would have written an interesting story about Matt and his comrades being suddenly plunged into the complex world of saurs and krakens and Nova Babylonians and Scoffer humans from Croatan. The krakens and the saurs both evolved on Earth and they’ve been bringing peopleand proto people, there are gigants and pithkies which I take to be the two kinds of austrolopithecusfrom Earth to the Second Sphere ever since. The spaceships move instantly at light speed, so it takes no more than a few hours to travel between stars, but years will have passed both on the world you left and the one you’re arriving at. They’re alien tech, and the human merchants who travel on them are passengers.The saurs go around in gravity skiffs, which are flying saucers, and they look like those grey aliens from Roswellbut the saurs in the Second Sphere say they have no information about what any saurs in the solar system may have been doing.