Book description
Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice,
sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name
Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language of
the planet Thamber, does not refer to Hekkus's own predilection for
homicide, but to his fondness for horrific and murderous devices,
including the giant robotic executioner that first gained him his
nickname. 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.
