Award-winning author Valerie Freireich has the uncanny ability to create stories that are at once boldly imaginative and entertaining, yet masterfully portray the layered complexities of alien cultures. In The Beacon, on a future Earth, the arrival of a vast alien starship forces the entire world to confront a deadly virus.
- ISBN10 0451453972
- ISBN13 9780451453976
- Publish Date 31 October 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint New American Library
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English