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The Deadly Isles

Name: The Deadly Isles
Price: 4.49 EUR
Author: Jack Vance
ISBN: 9781473229303

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Jack Vance

Gateway
Paru le : 11/03/2020

A young scientist with ties to a family fortune survives a murder attempt while working in Tahiti. He discovers the identity of the assailant, but not... > Lire la suite

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A young scientist with ties to a family fortune survives a murder attempt while working in Tahiti. He discovers the identity of the assailant, but not the motive. For this, he must follow the would-be murderer aboard an island-hopping passenger/cargo schooner bound for the Marquesas...

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Date de parution : 11/03/2020
Editeur : Gateway
ISBN : 978-1-4732-2930-3
EAN : 9781473229303
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Jack Vance

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.