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The Faceless Man

Jack Vance

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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...

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1973
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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…