An incredible discovery, the quantum telescope, allows for detailed observation of planets in the whole galaxy.
Life is everywhere, but only traces of civilisation remains.
And they just found why, or more preciselly where they are gone. Some years later, Steve discovers that the existence of an actually existing extraterrestrial civilisation had been hidden, erased in all the databases and statistics. For now some chapters of a third book in this serie, longer with space travels. The purpose of these books if basically for fun, of as much persons as possible. The great master of science fiction, Jules Verne, imagined stories based on the consequences of technical and scientific discoveries which were, in the late 19th Century, bold but realistic prospects.