Thousands of years in the future, Earth is a desolate ruin. The first human ship to return in millennia discovers an abandoned wasteland inhabited only by a few degenerate or mutated human outcasts. But among them is a boy of immense native intelligence and determination who is captured, taken in, and educated, and disappears - to grow up to become the force behind a plan to make Earth flower again. He is, if not immortal, at least very long-lived, and he plans to build an independent power base out in the galaxy and force the galactic empire to devote centuries and immense resources to the restoration of the ecology of Earth.
- ISBN13 9780765378156
- Publish Date 26 August 2014 (first published 1 January 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 May 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Tor Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English