From inside the dustjacket:
It is green and peaceful time in the far future of the earth. Perhaps the people are mutants, as Boy Jaim's thinks, survivors of the holocaust that ended the civilization of the wheel in the twenty-first century. No one remembers, but it is told the ancient practiced killing and at the meat of animals in those fearful days.
Now, suddenly, the stars predict catastrophe again! Boy Jaim is the first to see the Golden One, the giant, impossible beast the first to sense its vengeful hatred of man and read the implacable purpose of destruction in its intelligent eyes. As fear and anger, long forgotten, surge through the Five Communities, there is blood on the land and a red star in the skies.
Boy Jaim defies the Elders to organize a search of his own. Riding his sky sled over the Barrens, he intends to find the Golden One and communicate with it to discover what it knows about man that man has forgotten. No reader who accompanies him on his terrifying adventure will ever forget this tense voyage into the past and the future of his own improbable heritage.
It is green and peaceful time in the far future of the earth. Perhaps the people are mutants, as Boy Jaim's thinks, survivors of the holocaust that ended the civilization of the wheel in the twenty-first century. No one remembers, but it is told the ancient practiced killing and at the meat of animals in those fearful days.
Now, suddenly, the stars predict catastrophe again! Boy Jaim is the first to see the Golden One, the giant, impossible beast the first to sense its vengeful hatred of man and read the implacable purpose of destruction in its intelligent eyes. As fear and anger, long forgotten, surge through the Five Communities, there is blood on the land and a red star in the skies.
Boy Jaim defies the Elders to organize a search of his own. Riding his sky sled over the Barrens, he intends to find the Golden One and communicate with it to discover what it knows about man that man has forgotten. No reader who accompanies him on his terrifying adventure will ever forget this tense voyage into the past and the future of his own improbable heritage.
