Book description
The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground
in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the
Pnumekin: The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting its past
with ruthless and scholarly dedication. Surface-dwellers never saw the
Pnume--if they were lucky. Adam Reith was not so fortunate. The Pnume
had heard rumors of a strange man, claiming to have come from the planet
Earth, and they wanted him for Foreverness, the museum of Tschai life.
Adam Reith was about to become an alien exhibit. 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.
