"Stellar Ships" or "Star Ships" (
Russian name "Zvezdnye Korabli", russian: Звёздные корабли) is a
short story by the
Soviet writer and paleontologist
Ivan Yefremov written in 1944 and first published in 1948 in the
USSR.
A list of Ivan Efremov's literary works
This story is about the discovery of an ancient dinosaur bone with a mysterious bullet hole (or "blaster hole") and an alien
Alien primarily refers to:
* Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrater ...
skull and his portrait nearby. This acts as a starting point and a cover story to the philosophical idea of plurality of the mind
The mind is the set of faculties responsible for all mental phenomena. Often the term is also identified with the phenomena themselves. These faculties include thought, imagination, memory, will, and sensation. They are responsible for various m ...
cradles in the Universe, similarity of planet evolution paths, and similarity of physiology and psychology. Yefremov states the final perspective for all civilisations is The Great Circle, which will unite them all.
References
Short stories by Ivan Yefremov
1944 short stories
Ancient astronauts in fiction
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