Spatterlight: 98 books

Cover of The Flesh Mask
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

San Giorgio High School athlete Robert Struve's face is disfigured by an accident. Humiliated at a party by four popular girls, he lashes out- and as a result is sent away to reform school. Struve receives reconstructive surgery which transforms his appearance, then goes into the Army. Back in San Giorgio...
Cover of Bird Isle
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

Coves has more land on Bird Island than he can use. So he sells, using proceeds to renovate his hotel. He's happy with his buyers until he finds that none are exactly what they said they were. And one- or more- is bent on trouble.Cover art by Howard Kistler
Cover of The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

From Handbook of the Inhabited Worlds: "Big Planet lies beyond the frontier of terrestrial law, and has been settled by groups impatient with restraint: non-conformists, anarchists, fugitives, religious dissidents, misanthropes, deviants, freaks. Big Planet represents for us that tantalizing vision of...
Cover of The View from Chickweeds Window
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

Orphan Luellen Enright is sent to live with her aunt and uncle's family in San Francisco. Lulu has trouble with her new family and eventually is sent to a state home. She returns as a young woman to regain her fathers legacy, and uncovers an ugly family secret.Cover art by Howard Kistler
Cover of Suldrun's Garden
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add faeries, ogres, changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten warriors at war with all humanity. Stir in politics, intrigue,...
Cover of The Anome
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

The minstrel Gastel Etzwane lives in Shant- a country of cantons, each independently dictating its own law and customs. The enforcement of law is simple, quick, and inevitable: death by decapitation, from an explosive torc clamped around each citizen's neck by authority of a single man- the Anome.For...
Cover of The Asutra
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

Gastel Etzwane and his army of Brave Free Men have driven the Roguskhoi from Durdane, only to discover that Durdane is but one tiny front- a testing ground- for an implacable enemy intent on subjugating all the worlds of man. Gastel and his people are in no position to resist, but must find a way to...
Cover of The Domains of Koryphon
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012

The races of Koryphon keep an uneasy peace- the swift, nomadic Wind-runners, the fierce Uldras, and the aristocratic Outkers. For over two hundred years the Outkers have occupied the Alouan lands, living in baronial splendor where Uldra chieftains once ruled. When the self-proclaimed "Gray Prince" leads...
Cover of The Dogtown Tourist Agency
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

Gentleman detective Miro Hetzel takes on a case for an industrialist client, taking him to the dangerous planet Mazwhose natives are so fierce they'll fight three battles before lunch, then dine on the enemy!Cover art by Jared Pullen
Cover of Wyst: Alastor 1716
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

The Alastor Cluster is made up of thirty thousand inhabited planets whose sole protector of law is the mysterious Connatic. On Wyst, world 1716 of the Cluster, can be found a Utopia - or so it seems; in one great city live millions of people, sharing alike, working in absolute equality for just a few hours a week. But there is something decidedly strange about it all...
Cover of Marune: Alastor 933
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

From his fabulous palace on Numenes, the Connatic rules the sprawling Alastor Cluster, and tracks the doings of each of his trillion or more subjects. But there is one man he knows nothing about; the past life of the wanderer called Pardero is a complete mystery. Pardero himself has two goals: first,...
Cover of The Fox Valley Murders
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010

Ausley Wyett's release from prison after sixteen years in prison is an event of many consequences for the residents of San Rodrigo County, California. Five men whose testimonies led to Wyett's conviction receive threatening letters, and one by one become victims of fatal accidents. But there is no evidence...
Cover of The Green Pearl
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

In the second volume of the Lyonesse trilogy, new threads are woven into the epic tapestry begun in Suldruns Garden. While war rages across the Elder Isles, King Aillass true love, Glyneth, is carried off to a parallel world by an amoral magician in the pay of the wicked King Casmir. Meanwhile, a sorceresss...
Cover of The Book of Dreams
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012

Kirth Gersen's vengeance against the five Demon Princes is nearly complete. Only one is left- the mercurial Howard Alan Treesong. Gersen learns of a lost book written by Treesong in his youth; a treasured Book of Dreams. In Gersen's hands, the book may be the key to Treesong's undoing...Cover art by David Russell
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