Part of the Fantasy Masterworks series; 'A beautifully told, very readable novel' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'It never lets you down' Frank Herbert 'A fertile inventiveness that scoffs at the boundaries of genre' LOCUS 'Zestful creativity...in Vance's work, description itself becomes epic - a spellbinding novel of strange, eerie beauty, mystery and enchantment.' WASHINGTON POST
Jack Vance (1916-2013) Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining, engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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