[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Astounding Science-Fiction, December 1943. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Sargon of Akkad was holding court in all of his splendor in the Mesopotamia area, which he thought to be the center of the Universe. The stars to him were but holes in a black bowl which he called the sky. They were beautiful then, as they are now, but he thought that they were put there for his edification only; for was he not the ruler of Akkadia?…
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