Book description
In the midpoint novel of the "Demon Princes" series, Kirth
Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. Vance
describes this murderous creature as a "sybarite."
"Sadistic pervert" would probably be a more apropos phrase.
After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of
origin - Earth, of all places! Then the trail moves outward again, to
the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is actually a
physical Palace of Love 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.
