Reprinted with arrangement with Borgo Press this is the first mass market paperback edition of this book. Copyright 1979 and this version was published in 1985.

Back cover blurb:The ship was doomed. The host's body was dying. The only hope was to crash-land on a nearby primitive planet which, unknown to its natives , hosted a galactic observation station; a station where he could find shelter and, ultimately rescue. But with his host's last thread of consciousness, NK-2 saw that the city he expected lay in ruins. How could he find his fellow galactic in such chaos? How could an ancient being of pure energy survive, alone on such a world? Then salvation appeared in the form of a young boy, and NK-2 took his chance. Now slave and alien inhabit the same body, and the boy has become a spear, thrust at the very heart of the great Babylonian Empire. For NK-2's plan requires that he become a God. A Tom Doherty Associates book.

287 pages. ISBN 0-812-53108-6.