Book description
The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonists
parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the
"demon princes". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one by
one. In the process Vance does what he excels at: creating strange
worlds, environments, customs, and adaptations that humans have made to
live in these conditions. 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.
