Getting back to Globe from the earth Tschai included either stealing a spaceship or having one created to order-for Tschai was house to several intelligent star-born races, and so they had spaceyards. But Adam Reith’s issue was not so simple.

He’d already been lucky to flee the Chasch and the Wankh and a dozen different types of humans, and now his course led right to the Grand Sivishe Spaceyards in the domains of the Dirdir.

But the Dirdir were quite different from the other aliens who competed for this world. They were quicker, more sinister, and experienced an unrelenting thirst for hunting victims like Adam Reith. The nearer he found his objective, the keener their hunting instincts would become.

“Unique adventure, dastardly villains, gorgeous women, baroque landscapes, every served up with the inimitable, matchless Vance style and wit: dazzlingly inventive, utterly wonderful, and absolutely, unequivocally essential to any collection.”-Kirkus Reviews, praise for the series