Portal by Swigart, Rob - 1989

London: Grafton Books. Very Good. 1989. First British Edition; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Light edge and shelf wear, large old price sticker with associated tiny surface tear to front cover. ; Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. Wrap around cover artwork by Luis Rey. ; 352 pages; Based on an original computer mystery game. An astronaut returns to Earth from a mysteriously aborted mission to another star system, prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed; animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. But every human being, however, has disappeared. With the help of a slowly reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the last century. He learns of the child prodigy Peter Devore, of a world orchestrated by stunning new technologies, and of Peter's race against time to unlock the secrets of the Portal. .