# 5HC Gondwanaland *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 28 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *28 Apr 2002, 04:42* As Jack Vance is and was a major unfluence on GW, the idea in 5HC of prehistoric human migrations from Earth to other worlds may have been picked up, in part, from certain Vance novels of the Sixties: THE STAR KING, SPACE OPERA, and the Tschai series. However implausible the concept, Vance used it repeatedly. --Nick Gevers. ---