This novel was originally copyrighted in 8/78 and 9/79 as an unpublished work. By 1977, the author learned of the death of a Danish missionary doctor to Zaire from a strange immune suppression, speculated to have been caused by a new infectious agent; and, in early 1979, the author was told of several cases of kaposi's sarcoma, the so-called 'gay cancer' indicative of what would later be called AIDS, diagnosed in young NYC gay males. Hence the 'vague forebodings' expressed in The Illusion Dwellers: Book I, The Walls of Ilium, and Book II, The Trojan Horse.