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On the planet of Halma, a feudalistic world ruled by a race of effete Lords, young Ghyl Tarvok, fascinated by the legend of Emphyrio, steals a spaceship and embarks on a quest to find the key to the origin of Halma's culture and the secret that could change it, a search that sends him on a terrifying journey to a mysterious planet called Earth. Reprint.
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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.
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SALES POINTS * #19 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written * 'All Vance's novels have exotic locales and cultures, resourceful heroes and vigorous action, but in Emphyrio they are raised to the pitch of perfection, making the novel a tremendous pleasure to read, and giving it also a mysterious beauty' ' Kim Stanley Robinson * 'Jack Vance is our greatest living SF writer, and Emphyrio is one of his very best books, a magical tour de force of mystery, marvel, invention, incident, world-building and wordplay. But be warned: reading Vance is addictive' ' George R.R. Martin
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- PublisherUNKNO
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0743497759
- ISBN 13 9780743497756
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages315
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Burns, Jim - Cover (illustrator). First Printing. 315 Pages. Tight square book with no defects noted. Interior text pages are flawless. Was he the legendary liberator or tomorrow's space pirate. Halma: Where humans were ruled by a race of effete and arrogant Lords. Where a feudalistic system banned all work by machines. Where a benevolent welfare state rewarded talented hand labor with a barely adequate sustaining dole. Young Ghyl Tarvok, fascinated by the legend of Emphyrio, became a rebel. In a pirated spaceship, he began his search through the civilizations of neighboring planets for the key to the origin of his homeworld's culture and the secret that might change it. Inexorably he moved toward the last desperate hope: the planet his ancestors had left many thousands of years before the mysterious and terrifying place called Earth. This book was made possible by the VIE Project which is a virtual gathering of enthusiasts from all over the world, working together dedicated to the creation of a complete and correct Vance edition in 44 volumes; a permanent, physical archive of Vance's work. Texts are restored to their pristine condition, reviewed and corrected under the aegis of the author, his wife Norma and his son John. The text that they supplied for this present edition is the definitive authorized version. Seller Inventory # 15318
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