Ballantine, New York, 1973, 2^nd pr.  ISBN 0-345-23446-4.  MMPB, 252 pages.  Wraps show edge and cover wear, some creases and reading creases, scar at upper left near spine, light stray pen mark on bottom edge, binding sound with a slight wave and lean.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages.  ‘The year is 1999.  The century is about to turn.  The civilized world is prosperous but tense with fear about the still existing possibility of a major war.  The underdeveloped world is beset by a hysterical conviction that the world will come to an end with the arrival of the new century.  Into this explosive situation floats a creature calling himself Vornan-19 – and claiming to be a visitor from 1000 years in the future.  The world is ready, indeed ripe, for a sign, an omen, a cult.  But no one realizes exactly what Vornan-19 is …’ (from rear wrap)