Inherit the Stars

By James P. Hogan

(1977)

This begins when some astronauts find a skeleton on the moon that shouldn't be there. That's definitely weird and a good way to start, but then all they do is engage in a bunch of smarty-pants scientific investigations and shit. Even the jokes are scientific:

"Nobody ever built a computer that could unscramble all that entropy. You're up against the second law of thermodynamics; if you ever built one, it wouldn't be a computer at all--it would be a refrigerator."

Ha ha! What? Really that's the whole book- they just have debates and think about stuff and in the end they solve the mystery. It's actually kind of interesting - I guess - but frankly I would've liked it a lot more if the skeleton popped back to life at some point and went on a rampage.

"Dibs on his iPod."

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