Book description
The race of man is growing old, but it's not yet ready to die - not
while there are dragons still to kill! The cross-bred dragon armies of
the Men of Aerlith are the most appalling horrors ever to threaten the
sanity of our future: Termagents ~ three hundred reptilian giants with
six legs apiece, the most fecund breeders of them all. Jugglers ~
eighteen of them, growling amongst themselves, waiting for an
opportunity to snap off a leg from any unwary groom. Murderers (striding
and long-horned) ~ eighty-five of each, with scaly tails and eyes like
crystals. Fiends ~ fifty-two powerful monsters, their tails tipped with
spike steel balls. Blue Horrors, Basics, Spider Dragons... the enemy has
no chance. 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.
