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7/ THE THRESHOLD AT LAST!
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 Guest Editorial
GALACTIC HISTORY
By
Erich von D├дniken


Editorial Note:
Erich von D├дniken.
A name to conjure with.
Charlatan or prophet?
Quack or crusader?
One thing is for certain: his unorthodox views have attracted the attention of
millions of readers in a large number of languages and he gets paid a great deal of
money for anything he has to say or write.
We are fortunate to be able to present to the readership of ATLAN this message
by this intentionally controversial figure, translated from German by Wendayne
Ackerman.
FJA

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I AM CONVINCED that with the ATLAN SERIES many readersтАЩ wishes will be
fulfilled. For nothing has interested people (besides a glance into the future) as
much as that past from which there are no reports available. And this has always
been the case.
However, here also limits are placed on imagination and it depends on the
authors to cleverly connect in a logical manner the elements of action they have
invented together with vague hints from legends & religions. Only in this manner
can the history of mankindтАФand also that of the Galactic peoplesтАФbe writtenтАж
that history of outer space people who perhaps once upon a time may have visited
us.
IтАЩve read PERRY RHODAN from the beginning and I am fascinated by the
abundance of themes in it. Atlan complements Perry well. However, what was
lacking so farтАФif Galactic history was to be recordedтАФwas the description of
those events that took place in the realm of the Arkonides and in the Milky Way
before the discovery of Earth. Lacking were the adventures of young Atlan while
fleeing from his fatherтАЩs murderers. His experiences as a secret pretender to the
throne of the Imperator and finally his first encounter with our ancestors, of which
legends still exist today but about which concrete information is still lacking.
Thus are mixed in ATLAN reality & imagination and a mighty epos of our own
past and that of alien cosmic nations whose former contact with us perhaps
influenced our fate to such an extent that we still sense it today, even if
unconsciously. Without this contact our life today might pursue quite a different
course.
And the contact is one which might very well be repeated in the future.
I have been able to find out only very little about the large-scale action of