ALL FOUR PLANET OF ADVENTURE NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME
Stranded on the distant planet of Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world inhabited - not only by warring alien cultures, but human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off the planet to warn Earth of Tschai's deadly existence.
Against a backdrop of baroque cities, sumptuous palaces and riotous inns, Reith will encounter deadly wastrels and murderous aliens, dastardly villains and conniving scoundrels.
And always a random beauty in need of...

ALL THREE DURDANE NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME
The land of Shant on the planet Durdane is ruled by a purposely anonymous dictator called the Anome or Faceless Man. He maintains control by virtue of the torc, a ring of explosive placed around the neck of every adult in Shant. 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 millennia...

ALL THREE ALASTOR NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME
The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets, the cluster is ruled by the mysterious Connatic. He sees all and knows all, but with five trillion people contained within such far-flung boundaries, sooner or later something is bound to give.
Each story is centered on a particular world of Alastor, each with its own peculiar customs, a staple of Jack Vance's writings: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (first published in 1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978).

The Palace of Love (Book 3 of 5 in Demon Princes series, Russian translation)
Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of origin - Earth Then the trail moves outward again, to the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is actually a Palace of Love.

The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon...

"Galactic Effectuator" is an omnibus containing two of the famous detective "science fiction" stories written by the grandmaster of the genre, Jack Vance. This is a classic Vance: breathtaking adventures on colorful and dangerous planets, exotic customs of races evolved in unique conditions, and, of course, moving fast on the vivid background of it all, a brave and clever man, moderately quixotic but never forgetting his self-interest. Vance's protagonist, Miro Hetzel, is a top-notch interstellar private investigator who solves two tangled and risky cases.
In the first story, "Dogtown...

Demon Princes, Russian translation. All five books in one volume
"Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end. Your work will be the destruction of evil men..." These words define Kirth Gersen's destiny. Gersen has but one purpose: to destroy the five Demon Princes, most notorious criminals in the Reach.

The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his...