The Sky People are once implied to have assumed the guises of already-worshipped gods, such as Cernunnos, in order to communicate with humans, and sometimes are identified as divine by the human characters. Nimue is described as a servant of the Dark Ones, sent to prevent Merlin from giving humanity a leader (Arthur) who would bring it to the heights of knowledge. An obscure novel by André Norton called Merlin's Mirror (1975) portrays the wizard Merlin as a servant of benevolent "Sky People" who seek to elevate humanity and thwart the "Dark Ones" who wish to keep humanity ignorant.In Alexander Kazantsev's novel "The destruction of Faena" (1974), Phaeton is destroyed in a war between two aboriginal empires but survivors bring civilisation to Earth.They left behind a variety of futuristic technology, which creates many interesting opportunities for Earth. In Frederik Pohl's Heechee Saga (1972–2004), the Heechee are described as an ancient alien race that visited our solar system thousands of years ago.In Larry Niven's Known Space (1964–present), humanity is descended from aliens called the Pak.Blumrich's book The Spaceships of Ezekiel (1974), despite predating it by more than a decade. Although described in the magazine's Table of Contents as a short story, it actually takes the form of a pseudo-factual essay presenting a verse-by-verse analysis of Ezekiel's vision and interpreting this in terms of an encounter with ancient astronauts. Orton entitled The Four-Faced Visitors of Ezekiel. The March 1961 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Science Fact contains a piece by Arthur W.Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan (1959) depicts the whole of human development and civilization to be a medium used by aliens for relaying messages to an alien space-explorer stranded on one of Saturn's moons.Wilson Tucker's The Time Masters (1953) has a private detective who turns out to be Gilgamesh, who was a survivor of a starship crash thousands of years ago.In his novel Rendezvous with Rama, a religion called the "Fifth Church of Christ, Cosmonaut" is mentioned, whose central tenet is that Jesus was an alien visitor. Clarke has written several stories utilizing the theme, most famously in his 1953 short story " Encounter in the Dawn", which became the basis for the first section of 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968. Edgard Armond's Os Exilados de Capela (1949), a spiritist book about beings coming from the Capella star to arrive on Earth in Prehistory, both the gods and Adam, the first man from the Genesis would have origins in Capella.
#ANCIENT SPACE ALIENS SERIES#
Eando Binder's short fiction series Via (1937-1942), published later as Puzzle of the Space Pyramids (1971).Weinbaum's " Valley of Dreams" (1934) has an expedition to Mars discover that its bird-like natives, who refer to themselves as Thoth, visited Egypt approximately 15,000 BCE and were the inspiration for the Egyptian god of the same name, as well as the start of Egyptian writing. Howard's short story " The Tower of the Elephant" (1933). Lovecraft's " The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) and At the Mountains of Madness (1931) are some of the many works of the cosmic horror author that deal with ancient aliens. The Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs.Afterwards, a plague caused them to leave, with the Martians taking a number of their human slaves to Mars to serve them there, until an expedition led by Thomas Edison freed their descendants in the early 20th century. In it, the narrator learns that the Martians from The War of the Worlds visited Earth around 7500 BC, enslaving the inhabitants of the Fertile Crescent and bringing them to Egypt to make monuments of their conquest, including the Giza pyramid complex and the Great Sphinx (which is actually the face of the leader of the Martian expedition). Serviss' Edison's Conquest of Mars, published in 1898, is perhaps the first story to feature ancient astronauts who have a major influence on early human civilizations, predating Fort's book by over 20 years. Jane's novel To Venus in Five Seconds (1897). Rosny aîné's Les Xipehuz from 1887 features geometric aliens encountered by primitive humans living a thousand years before Babylonian times. It describes the fight that threatens humanity, in the beginning of its history, against a new form of intelligent non-organic life, the Xipéhuz, some sort of sentient crystals.Īncient astronauts have been addressed frequently in science fiction and horror fiction. Rosny-although it is possible that Rosny aîné was the principal contributor. Les Xipéhuz (1888) is a novella by the writing duo J.-H.
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