The novel “A Heritage of Stars” by Clifford D. Simak was published for the first time in 1977.

Thomas Cushing wants to discover the secrets of humanity’s technological past. Studying at the university, he found a record dating back a thousand years that reports stories that were already centuries old concerning the total destruction of technology. The chronicle also reports the story, maybe just a legend, concerning the place of going to the stars, where human beings were leaving to reach distant worlds.