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detonated in their depths?" I asked him.
"I don't deny such a possibility," he replied, and added, "but even if it
weren't so, nuclear weapons must be banned in any case."
He understood it all at once! If the planet had perished when its oceans
exploded, then there was a civilisation on it that had destroyed itself
because of a nuclear war.
This was the stimulus for me as a novelist to write my trilogy The
Faetians. Other problems found their way into it. Why has the missing
link between man and the Earth's animal world never been discovered?
Why does Mars seem uninhabited, and was it always so? Why did great
cataclysms occur on Earth, such as the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of
the Andes? According to some theories, the cause was a gigantic asteroid
that fell onto Earth, or the appearance of the hitherto non-existent Moon
in the sky over Earth. Is this so?
The reader will learn all about it in the novel as he follows the lives of
the characters, who witnessed unprecedented catastrophes.
The author will be happy if this book helps the reader to acquire a taste
for the great secrets of the Universe and of Earth's history.


Alexander Kazantsev


Peace is the virtue of civilisation.
War is its crime.
Victor Hugo
 PART ONE

Tension

Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,Profaners of
this neighbour-stained steel.
Will they not hear?тАФ
What ho! You men, you beasts.
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins.
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground...
W. Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet


Chapter One

THE WAVE

Translation of an extraterrestrial message inscribed in the language
of the Faetians who lived on Faena a million years ago. (Books 2 and 3 of
my science-fantasy novel, The Faetians, tell of who wrote and sent this
message to Earth and who deciphered it.)