"In the beginning was the Shining One, Ptath, god of land, sea and space, on whom be all praise heaped, and countless prayers offered that he may return to his chosen race from his millions of years of merging with the race, which noble sacrifice he made for the glory of his people and for the development of his spirit, O Diyan, O Kolla and divine Rad."
Holroyd blinked at the words, then closed the book. The wonder of it grew and grew, and slowly a conviction formed: He was dead. Except for this resurrection in the body of a god, he would he lying dead on a battlefield. But now it was two hundred million years later, and he was destined to rule the world. He was the god they worshipped as Ptath.
- ISBN10 0879979305
- ISBN13 9780879979300
- Publish Date 1 May 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 22 March 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Daw Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 160
- Language English