318 pages. The boards are rubbed and the front hinge reinforced with acid free tape; there are two discrete ownership stamps on the front end paper and again on the title page. The fore-edge has been knocked against something, bumping the blank edge of a few pages and the back hinge is partially exposed, but remains solid. The spine is cracked between page 192 -193, bu the binding remains solid. The worst fault is a printer's one, in which the pages have been short cut and in one case two pages not cut short enough, leaving the page overhanging and its tail lightly damaged. It's not a pretty copy, but it is sound, clean and unmarked. First edition of 2000 copies. To an optimist, a good copy, to a pessimist, fair. "When two amateur archaeologists in Australia uncover a hidden high-tech tomb they inadvertently awaken a millennia-old superhuman. Does the beautiful Earani mean to save humanity or destroy it? A country farmer uncovers remnants of an advanced civilisation that contain a woman, asleep in suspended animation for two thousand years. Upon awakening the woman Earani teleports herself into the office of the Australian Prime Minister and reveals her plans to take over the world -- through mind control. An advanced civilisation from the impossibly distant past is about to be resurrected in rural Australia. What dark secrets does it hold? Is it possible for a man to deny the requests of the world's most beautiful and intelligent woman? To fight a relentless and appealing logic no matter how horrific the consequences?" (Trove)