Book description
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? First published in 1968 Robert Silverberg (1935 - )
Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1935, and is one of
the most prolific authors of all time, writing not just SF &
Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large number of pseudonymously
published erotica novels. In his first years as a professional writer,
his output regularly exceeded a million words per year. He has won and
been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards dozens of times as both
writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA Grand Master Award.
Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are A Time of Changes,
The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's Castle. Robert
Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States with his wife,
author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
