Book description
The gigantic world known as Big Planet had become a wilderness of
strange peoples and weird cultures as a result of having been the
dumping ground for every crackpot and malcontent that ever emigrated
from the Earth. Somewhere in its unmapped vastness a plot was being
hatched to disturb the peace of the mother world's civilization. Jack
Vance (1916 - ) 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.
