Die Chronolithen by Robert Charles Wilson

When enormous stone monuments begin appearing around the world, each inscribed to commemorate a future military victory by an unknown leader, governments, media and ordinary people are thrust into panic and speculation as the artifacts continue to arrive and the events they declare start to come true. The novel follows an everyday man whose life is altered by the first appearance, tracing how obsession, political manipulation and personal choices unfold as society struggles to understand whether these monuments are warnings, instruments of predestination, or fragments of a future bleeding into the present.

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