Book description
At last a lone youth dares to challenge the unchallengeable, to defy
the Anome. But first he must find him - and though all men obey his
orders, no man knows his identity. He is the Faceless Man. 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.
