London... 2087

Something strange and terrible was happening to earth...

The city seemed to explqde right before Conway s eyes.

First the flash of blinding light, then the thunderingcrash.

Everywhere around him was destruction and death. It was

the same in all the other major citiesof the world. Conway

knew that it was somehow connected with that last fateful

expedition...and the creature they had unknowingly brough

back - which was now occupying the body of his wife!

"Fred Hoyle, a celebrated astronomer known as Leonardo

da Hoyle to some of his possibly envious colleagues, is a

man of vast imagination. From time to time, he likes to turn

from the task of enriching his profession with a seemingly

end ess seres of bold theories and hypotheses and let that

imagination run loose in an area where no man can say him

nay...The Hoyles story is sharp, clear and full of

suspense.. . -The Washington D.C. Evening Star