Book description
Book four in the series which relate the story of Kirth Gersen as he
exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as
the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his
childhood. 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.
