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The Pnume: 4 (Tschai, Planet of Adventure) Tapa blanda – 4 mayo 2016
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His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the Dirdir, and the Wannek -- while the planet's original inhabitants, the mysterious Pnume, lurk underground. In the fourth and final book of the cycle, Reith's plans to leave Tschai are foiled by the treachery of Aila Woudiver, who delivers him into the clutches of the subterranean-dwelling Pnume. Reith escapes, and teaming with a young and reluctant Pnumekin woman, embarks on an odyssey through a somber labyrinth of tunnels and underworld waterways, to where his spaceship lies hidden. When his companion is captured by the Pnume, Reith must force a last, desperate bargain.
Tschai is grandmaster Jack Vance at his unparalleled adventure-spinning peak. – Matt Hughes
The Pnume is Book IV of the Tschai (Planet of Adventure) sequence, and Volume 37 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series.Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collectionis based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoyup-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributedby a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of theauthor's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These uniquefeatures will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work forthe first time.
– John Vance II
- Longitud de impresión152 páginas
- IdiomaInglés
- Fecha de publicación4 mayo 2016
- Dimensiones15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101619471043
- ISBN-13978-1619471047
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- Editorial : Spatterlight Press (4 mayo 2016)
- Idioma : Inglés
- Tapa blanda : 152 páginas
- ISBN-10 : 1619471043
- ISBN-13 : 978-1619471047
- Peso del producto : 231 g
- Dimensiones : 15.24 x 0.97 x 22.86 cm
- Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº35.435 en Ciencia ficción (Libros)
- nº486.438 en Libros en inglés
- nº609.559 en Literatura y ficción (Libros)
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'The Pnume' is the fourth and concluding volume of Vance's Tschai series. In this one, stranded Earthman Adam Reith encounters the fourth non-human species on Tschai, the only indigenous one. The Pnume are perhaps the most chilling and inhuman of the aliens Reith has to deal with. Living in a vast network of subterranean caverns, the Pnume abhor the light and the open air of the surface world. Still, dark, silent, skeletally lean but strong and dense as iron, dressed always in their drooping, wide-brimmed hats and black cloaks, the Pnume live lives of total rigidity. Like some ultra-extreme race of Puritans, their overriding goal is to preserve order and decorum; they shun anything they consider "boisterous." Like the other alien groups, the Pnume have their own extensive population of human slaves, the so-called "Pnumekin," and like the other slave populations, the Pnumekin have inculcated the customs and thought processes of their masters. To make sure of this, the Pnume have introduced agents into the Pnumekin's food and water supply that allow them to become more or less adults, but prevent them from achieving sexual maturity (since sex, as Reith dryly points out at one point, can cause people to get "quite boisterous"). The pallid, androgynous, silent and joyless Pnumekin live in a state of total domination under the Pnume.
This is perhaps the best book in a series where all of the books are outstanding. At the beginning of 'The Pnume,', Reith is abducted by the Pnume's agents, who trap him in a large bag and carry him away into the night. He is lowered down a deep hole in the ground that opens up into the mysterious darkness of the Pnume's world. Forests of crystal-quartz hang from cavern walls embedded with precious stones. Pnume towns perch on the edge of underground rivers. This down-the-rabbilt-hole experience of Reith's touches on one of our most primordial fears: to be abducted from our own bed at night and carried off alone into some Plutonian hell-world miles below the surface.
Reith, as usual, is up to the challenge. He more or less forces a young Pnumekin woman to help him. After many adventures below ground, they finally attain the surface where, deprived of the chemicals the Pnume put in her food and water, the Pnumekin woman suddenly develops full human femaleness and sexuality. This turns out to be an event she is ill-prepared to understand or deal with. It also further complicates life for Reith.
In the end, both the current story and the arch-plot resolve in very satisfying ways. One of the most entertaining series in science fiction comes to an end.







