Night Lamp (A novel of the Gaean Reach) (S.F. Masterworks)

by Jack Vance

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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.

Jaro's life is directed by an inner voice he cannot 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.

Jaro is haunted by memories of his dead mother's terror, and he is about to find out why . . .

  • ISBN10 0006482112
  • ISBN13 9780006482116
  • Publish Date 15 April 1998 (first published 31 December 1996)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 July 2002
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Voyager
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 380
  • Language English