Book description
This sequel to "Araminta Station", features the character of
Glawen Clattuc, who helped save the unique planet Cadwal. The charter
that granted Cadwal conservation has disappeared - and Glawen and
Wayness Tamm are sent across a variety of planets to try and retrieve
it. 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.
