Book description
In the reaches of Mircea's Whips the convoluted plots and politics that
have swirled around the House of Clattuc and the Conservancy of Cadwal
are beginning to unravel. But what remains for Glawen Clattuc to
discover could bring down a dozen powerful families on as many worlds.
Throy concludes the Cadwal Chronicles, which began with Araminta Station
and continued in Ecce and Old Earth. 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.
