Erich von Daniken, Swiss writer who spawned alien archaeology, dies at 90

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20. Science Fiction

There were multiple science fiction stories about aliens visiting Earth in the past written decades before Chariots of the Gods.

Per Wikipedia:

A 2004 article in Skeptic magazine states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. P. Lovecraft's stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and At the Mountains of Madness.