Book description
A human starship intercepts a mysterious signal and tracks it back to
Carina 4268, a star system 212 light years from Earth. Two elite scouts,
Adam Reith and Paul Waunder, are dispatched in a small scout-boat to
investigate the planet whence it came. Seconds later, a missile destroys
their mothership. The two survivors nurse the severely damaged
scout-boat to the planet before ejecting into a forest. The crash site
is first discovered by a band of technologically primitive humans. Reith
is amazed to find men on a heretofore unknown, distant planet. 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.
