Kirlian Quest: Piers Anthony

Book III of the Cluster series. Twice the Milky Way Galaxy has been on the verge of extinction and twice a heroic defender has come forward to throw back invaders from the Andromeda Galaxy. Now the galaxies are untied in a peaceful alliance. But Hweeh of Weew, Milky Way's leading research astronomer has noticed at Amoeba - just beyond the galaxies' common frontier - is expanding in their direction. Herald the Healer is called in and armed only with his hypertensive Kirlian aura he wages almost single-handed battle against the greatest threat ever to face the galaxies. But first he must unravel the secrets of the Ancients, astounding secrets whose import could never have been imagined...Cover art by Fred Gambino