Ports of Call - Vance, Jack
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Myron Tany has taken a degree in space studies...but he has much to learn when he first boards a ship. In thrall to his zany aunt Dame Hester Lajoie, Myron accompanies her when she sets off in her space yacht to find a faraway fountain of youth. Her captain flatters her agreeably, but when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, Hester maroons poor Myron on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Thus Myron is given the perfect opportunity to live out his childhood fantasies of intergalactic adventure, alien encounters and exotic romance. Or starve to death. Luckily, the…mehr

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Myron Tany has taken a degree in space studies...but he has much to learn when he first boards a ship. In thrall to his zany aunt Dame Hester Lajoie, Myron accompanies her when she sets off in her space yacht to find a faraway fountain of youth. Her captain flatters her agreeably, but when Myron points out that the man is a swindler, Hester maroons poor Myron on an inhospitable planet with barely his passage home. Thus Myron is given the perfect opportunity to live out his childhood fantasies of intergalactic adventure, alien encounters and exotic romance. Or starve to death. Luckily, the tramp cargo vessel Glicca is just then in need of a supercargo, and Myron is it. "Jack Vance is a peerless creator of strange landscapes." FINANCIAL TIMES "From a master storyteller...Grand yarn-spinning" KIRKUS REVIEWS "Vance at his most effortless and pleasant" BOOKLIST
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The author was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to sf and fantasy magazines. His first novel, 'The Dying Earth', was published in 1950 to great acclaim. Since then he has won both the Hugo and Nebula awards; he has also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel 'The Man in the Cage'. He lives in California in a house he designed.