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The Blue World - Softcover

Vance, Jack

 
9780879978174: The Blue World

Synopsis

Sklar Hast risks his life to prevent raids by sea monsters on the floating islands where Sklar's people live

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Book Description

'One of the finest writers the science fiction field has ever known' Poul Anderson

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.

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