Myron Tany, rebellious scion of a wealthy family, tours the Galaxy on a very questionable interstellar freighter, in search of his lurulu. Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, first the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told. A boy haunted by memories of his dead mother's terror, Jaro's life is directed by an inner voice he can't account for...until he returns to Kammerwelt, described in The Handbook of the Planets as the fourth ...
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Myron Tany, rebellious scion of a wealthy family, tours the Galaxy on a very questionable interstellar freighter, in search of his lurulu. Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, first the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told. A boy haunted by memories of his dead mother's terror, Jaro's life is directed by an inner voice he can't account for...until he returns to Kammerwelt, described in The Handbook of the Planets 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. Then Myron Tany, in thrall to his zany aunt Dame Hester Lajoie, sets off in her space yacht to find a faraway fountain of youth. The captain flatters Hester agreeably, but when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, he is marooned on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Thus he is given the perfect opportunity to live out his childhood fantasies of intergalactic adventure, alien encounters and exotic romance. Or starve to death. Luckily, the tramp cargo vessel Glicca is just then in need of a supercargo, and Myron is it.
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Edwards, Les. VG- 204 p. 1st UK edition, paperback from Voyager, 2006. VERY GOOD MINUS, 1" tear at front cover fore-edge, scarring from sticker removal back cocer. Great Les Edwards wrap-around cover art.
Nice follow up to Port of Call, classic Vance. According to a July 15th 2009 article in the NYT, he's not dead but working on finishing his autobiography.
jonf
Mar 30, 2009
Very sad fill in job
This book was not written by Jack Vance. It appears to have been written by a ghost writer who took notes and drafts Vance had left after his death, and attempted to cobble something together. Does not belong with the previous book at all. This is very sad but no one else has to be lured into this false hope of another Jack Vance book. Avoid
