The Faceless Man
Serial publication in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1971. First book edition 1973 as The Anome. Cover: Ned Dameron. Underwood-Miller, 1983.
Durdane the Imprisoned
A world of strange ways and stranger
people. A land where men and women are marked for life. Where they are
bound to irrevocable destinies by the proclamations of the Faceless Man – an unseen power which terrorises and controles the world.
Durdane
is a place where defiance is punished with death. But this kingdom of
myriad mystery and incalculable peril is now threathened by a menace
from without – the dreaded Rogushkoi. And only one youth, Gastel
Etzwane, dares to challenge the unchallengeable, the power of the
Faceless Man, in an extraordinary struggle for mastery and for the
survival of Durdane...
Jack Vance
John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (1916–2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.
Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers.
Durdane
Durdane consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
