The Face

Jack Vance

Orion, Dec 19, 2011 - Fiction - 132 pages

Book four in the series which relate the story of Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during his childhood.

About the author

Jack Vance (1916 - ) Jack 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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Face; Gateway Essentials
• Author: Jack Vance
• Publisher: Orion, 2011
• ISBN: 0575109696, 9780575109698
• Length: 132 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Military; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera