Book description
The Tree ruled the horizons, shouldered aside the clouds, and wore
thunder and lightning like a wreath of tinsels. It was the soul of life,
trampling and vanquishing the inert, and Joe understood how it had come
to be worshipped by the first marvelling settlers on Kyril. Joe Smith is
roaming the galaxy in search of the man who has stolen his love's heart.
During his travels he becomes involved with a power struggle taking part
between two worlds -one religious, the other cultural- over possession
of a developing, but potentially lucrative, third. 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.
