BEYOND THE LIGHT BARRIER

191pp., hardback, d.w. worn, illus., Howard Timmins Publishers, Cape Town, 1980

From the dust wrapper:

“This is the first English publication of Elizabeth Klarer’s astounding book, Beyond the Light Barrier. It tells the autobiographical story of the encounter between this gifted and intelligent woman, a Cambridge-trained meteorologist, and Akon, an astrophysicist from space. Akon lived on Meton, one of the planets orbiting Proxima Centauri, our nearest stellar neighbour at 4.2 lightyears away. Elizabeth was taken aboard his spaceship to Meton, where she lived with his family for four months — and where their son was born. Her life on Meton is fascinatingly described....”