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Mr. Youngs new story arrives like a breath of fresh air which will we trust help blow awayall those quotsensationalquot theories about astronauts from space landing on ancient Earth to beworshipped as gods. Here then is the Way It Would Have Been in such a confrontation betweenspace gods and ancient naive Man and Woman. The Star of Stars by ROBERT F. YOUNG In one sense our story ends before it begins. It ends long ago on Earth in the quotLand of Shinarquot on the Tigris-Euphrates Plain. It begins inthe present with the discovery of a perfectly preserved set of transspace holograms in one ofthe dead cities of the Planet of Lost Laughter. The hero of the holograms is a prehistoric space traveler named Hwanonin. The quotHwanoninHologramsquot do not record everything he did and thought and saw and said — this wouldmanifestly have been impossible — and they omit his early years but with the help of otherholograms found in the same city and a modicum of poetic license it is possible to reconstructhis life up until the moment his world lost contact with him. He was born during the twilight years of his planets civilization
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