David Nichols
Description
World-renowned linguist, humanist and Public Television personality Professor Humbert Pinrod is asked to help the Department of Defense identify an un
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known language. He reluctantly agrees and is drawn into a secretive study of an unidentified object that crashed in the Arizona desert eighteen years earlier. Far away from his Maryland college town, he is soon taken farther still when objects of a similar kind draw him up into the night sky and leave him in a terrifying world apparently in the grip of cosmic warfare. In a race against time, he struggles to disabuse a nomadic people of their delusions of gods and demons and of deliverance by a higher power, until he encounters the savage Beastwoman, a fellow-traveler from his own world who has gone before him and hears a voice on the mountaintops that calls her people to sacrifice and war. And in such a war as this, delusion may be the deadliest weapon of all.
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