Introduction

What can you possibly do when you are told that the world in which you live is dying and that within ten years there will be no signs whatsoever that your civilisation had ever even existed?

Panic?

Then you learn that it will be hundreds of million years before evolution will turn full circle to create another civilisation that bears any similarity to your own.

What would you feel if you knew that this new civilisation will make the same stupid mistakes?

Indifference?

Such was the fate awaiting the inhabitants of the world of Epho, an Earth-like planet located an enormous distance from our own, — though that depends to some extent on how one chooses to measure such a vast span.

Strangely, there were those on Epho who were deeply concerned for the people of this new civilisation, but what could they possibly hope to achieve?

Should you care enough to want know, read on.

And when you do know, perhaps you can consider the implications?

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