Book description
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a
spaceship or having one built to order--for Tschai was the abode of
several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards. But
Adam Reith's problem was not so simple. He'd already been lucky to
escape the Chasch and the Wannek, and a dozen different types of humans,
and now his course led directly to the Great Sivishe Spaceyards in the
domains of the Dirdir. But the Dirdir were quite different from the
other aliens who competed for this world. They were quicker, more
sinister, and had an unrelenting thirst for hunting victims like Adam
Reith. The closer he came to his objective, the keener their hunting
instincts would become! 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.
