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The Power Dynamics of Ancient Aliens in Science Fiction
There's this whole element of like forced labor slaves built the pyramids or you know how like if you throw thousands of bodies over many many years into doing something that's another thing that is then written away. The ancient aliens continues in science fiction through the 20s and the 30s pulp fiction writers are writing about it regularly in the 40s and 50s comic book writers start picking up the whole idea that humans were guided by aliens.
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