
by RobertSilverberg (Author)
Vornan-19 fell from the sky and landed, naked, on the Spanish Steps in Rome on the afternoon of Christmas Day toward the end of the millennium. And that, for Leo Garfield began an extraordinary and eventful year. For Garfield is an acknowledged expert in the time-reversal of sub-atomic particles and Vornan-19 claims to come from far in the future, a claim that has to be investigated. But the world is in a strange, edgy state as it prepares to move into the next millennium and is ready and willing to see the charming and magnetically charismatic Vornan as some kind of messiah. Even Garfield and his fellow scientists come under Vornan's spell. But can he really be from the future? Or is he just a charlatan and a fraud?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 05 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0575072180
ISBN 13: 9780575072183
Book Overview: 'Silverberg at his best' ANALOG 'One of Silverberg's most unjustifiably neglected novels' - PAPERBACK INFERNO 'Probably the most intelligent science fiction writer in America' - Ursula Le Guin A compassionate, powerful and enigmatic novel that bears comparison to STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND 'One of the most imaginative and versatile writers ever to have been involved with sf' - THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION