Key Out of Time

Those tapes returned to Terra after their chance discovery, were studied, probed, deciphered by the best brains of his time, shared out by lot between already suspicious Terran powers, bringing into the exploration of space bitter rivalries and old hatreds. Ross himself had helped to loot a storehouse on an unknown planet for a cargo of such tapes. Ross Murdock, Gordon Ashe, Karara Trehern, Tino-rau, Taua—five Terrans forever lost in time—in the past with a dubious future. What did it matter to Terrans ten thousand years or so in the future what happened to Hawaikans in this past?