In the Golden Age of
science fiction, it was still possible for wishful thinkers (like
Campbell) to imagine that Mars had some plant life, but now it was essentially a "dead planet" where a glorious technologically advanced civilization might have risen and fallen long before humans arrived. And that Venus has living creatures just like Earth. And that planetary systems would be rare in the galaxy. And that Earth-like planets might be found around a young star like Vega. Vega?
Yes, Vega. As one of the brightest stars in Earth's sky, Vega has been a popular destination for science fiction story writers.
Vega was written into Carl Sagan's science fiction novel
Contact.
Isaac Asimov and Jack Vance also included Vega in their science fiction stories. Sadly, Vega is such a young star that it is unlikely to have an Earth-like planet in orbit.
In the
December 1942 issue of
Amazing Stories, one of the stories was "
Planet of the Gods" by
Robert Moore Williams. Williams imagined that an expedition from Earth arrives on the Earth-like world that orbits Vega. The planet is populated by human-like aliens who have telepathic powers (see the image to the left).
He Was Dead, Jeb
Just before landing on the Vegan planet, three crew members are killed in a "space battle". The crew lands their damaged ship and buries their three dead crew members. The next day, the three dead men are alive again, having been brought back to life by the Vegans. The Vegans are ancient and have very advanced technology. The "space battle" was fought against one of their automated space forts, long ago left in orbit. Although the Vegan's now live in post-industrial bliss among the forest groves of their world, they long ago traveled to the stars. We Earthlings can trace our origins to the Vegans who long ago visited Earth.
Moore Alternate
In the
Ekcolir Reality, Robert Williams became a conduit for release of information about the secret history of Earth. According to
Gohrlay, Williams had a "
close encounter" with a positronic robot and he came into possession of some
infites that provided him with a fairly complete, if garbled, understanding of the fact that Earth had long ago been contacted by aliens.
The World As We Know It
In the
Buld Reality, the world as we know it, Williams was one of the science fiction writers who was contacted by the
Dead Widowers during 20th century. Once again, the analogue of Williams was provided with a swarm of infites, leading to an attempt to pass forbidden knowledge into our timeline.
Gohrlay showed me a novel that Williams wrote:
Planet of the Fru'wu. In 1958, soon after trying to publish
Planet of the Fru'wu, Williams was removed from Earth. According to Gohrlay, Williams was replaced by an artificial life form that could perfectly mimic his behavior during the remaining years of "his life" on Earth, but his science fiction writing career was over.
Gohrlay claims that the first infites that were transferred to
me were those that had originally been provided to Williams. Williams was an unfortunate "test subject" for the
Experimental Interventionists who were trying to probe the nature of the
Trysta-Grean Pact during the 20th century. Eventually they realized that no release of information about the secret history of Earth would be tolerated until after the end of the
Time Travel Era.
I was forced to carry the "Williams infites" for several decades before I was allowed to become consciously aware of their information content. Early in this millennium, I began writing stories that were set in
Exodemic Fictional Universe, but I was still kept under strict restraints until after the
Buld visit to Earth in 2012.
According to Gohrlay, the true importance of Vega for Earth is that the rogue planet
Yrwerd is now located near Vega.
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