THE PNUME (Planet of Adventure #4)
by Vance, Jack
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ace Books, 1970. Book. Fine. Soft cover. No Edtion Given. An Ace Science Fiction paperback # 66902, no edition given, Original price $.60, copyright 1970 in fine condition. Light reading bend along edge spine on front cover, light rubbing of edges and tanning of pages and cover....*We have other titles in this genre in stock and give discounts in shipping on additional books sent in the same package, please contact us for more info.**.......WRAPPED IN PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK......The Pnume are native to Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin. Historians of Tschai, the Pnume collect its past with scholarly disinterest; they hear rumors of Adam Reith - a man who claims to come from another planet, named Earth - and they want him for permanent display in Foreverness, museum of Tschai life! Reith must survive the Pnume tunnels, if he is ever to return to Earth. Tschai is a planet orbiting the star Carina 4269, 212 light-years from Earth. It is populated by three alien, mutually hostile species; the displaced, native Pnume; and various human races, some of whom live as slaves or clients of the aliens..
Synopsis
The Pnume is the final science fiction adventure novel in a tetralogy entitled Tschai, Planet of Adventure. Written by Jack Vance, it tells of the efforts to return to Earth by the sole survivor of a human starship destroyed while investigating a mysterious signal from the distant planet Tschai.
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- Title
- THE PNUME (Planet of Adventure #4)
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- No Edtion Given
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- SCIENCE FICTION
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- Science Fction/ Fantasy;
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