This excerpt is from Into the Lost Worlds , a novel that has already been published in Japanese on Kindle. What you see here is a portion of the book translated into English and shared Chapter One: The Time Traveler 1 Would you laugh if I told you that a civilization once existed on Mars, and that at exactly that time, a civilization equal to or perhaps even surpassing our current one existed on Earth? You'd say it's impossible, wouldn't you? Or would you listen seriously, thinking that such things might not be so strange after all? I suspect most people would fall into the former category. I can't blame them. Until recently, I would have frowned or laughed it off myself if someone had told me such a thing. Impossible, I would have said. Absurd. But the truth is different. To be honest, I've just returned to the present day from Earth five hundred thousand years in the past. No, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let me back up. I should start with how I came to bel...