Night Lamp - S.F. Masterworks

@2@Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told.@3@@2@Jaro's life is directed by an inner voice he cannot account for . . . until he returns to Kammerwelt, described in @18@The Handbook of the Planets@19@ as the fourth world in the entourage of Robert Palmer's Star, drifting in a far-flung sector of the galaxy known as the Dragon's Maw. @3@@2@Jaro is haunted by memories of his dead mother's terror, and he is about to find out why . . .@3@

About the author

Jack Vance (1916-2013)
John Holbrook 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Vance
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9781473208926
• ISBN: 978-1-4732-0892-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 198 mm x 24 mm
• Series: S.F. MASTERWORKS; S.F. MASTERWORKS
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera, FICTION / Science Fiction / Military, Nebula Award; space opera; World Fantasy Award; Dying Earth