Book description
There is a Hole at the eastern fringe of the known universe. Deep
within it hangs a lost star, Mora, with twin planets, Maske and Skay. On
wild Maske there is a rocky peninsula inhabited by a clan of warlike
dreamers, the Droads. The eldest son, Trewe, is by birthright Droad of
Droad. The second son has no choice but to turn his face toward
adventure. His name is Jubal Droad... 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.
