"The inspiration for the Showtime series"--cover. Published in paperbacks in the United States by Fawcett Gold Medal Books in 1963.
Summary:
Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars, and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth - in Kentucky, disguised as a human - it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction.
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