Primarily an adventure and mystery novel but set in a complex society in which communication is through a complex series of stringed instruments and everyone must wear a mask. Status is the main concern.
}, year = {1961}, journal = {Galaxy Magazine}, volume = { 19.6}, pages = {159-94}, month = {08/1961}, issn = {0016-4003 }, note = {Rpt. in his The World Between and Other Stories (New York: Ace Books, 1965), 36-74. Ace Double bound with his Monsters in Orbit; and in in Alpha One. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970), 8-47. Rev. in The Moon Moth and Other Stories. vol. 17 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance (Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002), 203-250; and in The Jack Vance Treasury. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007), 453-487.
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