VGC.Warner Books,1996.First USA edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Hardback(silver lettering to the spine,mark,nicks,dent and light shelf wear on the edges of the cover) with Dj(crease,nicks and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near VGC.Illustrated with b/w drawings.Nice and clean pages with a couple of ink marks and nicks on the outer edges,two pencil marks impressions on the edge of the first blank page of the book.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear on the cover.Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke.564pp.Price un-clipped.Heavy book.First edition-first printing. This is another paragraph Review:Buzz Aldrin, one of manned space flight's pioneers, has helped create a stunning, possibly prophetic novel of the future of space exploration. A radio beacon from an unknown world leads an astronaut to disaster on the Moon -- and his son far beyond that as he searches for the key to the mystery of Tiber, a civilization who left artifacts in the solar system some 9,000 years ago, with sufficient impact on human affairs to explain some odd references in the Bible. The villains of the book are not the aliens, but the benighted politicians with the minds of accountants who won't fund the necessary scientific derring-do to save the world -- apparently an affliction which alien astronauts also have to bear.