Night Lamp Av Jack Vance

<p>Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told.<br><br>Jaro''s life is directed by an inner voice he cannot account for . . . until he returns to Kammerwelt, described in <i>The Handbook of the Planets</i> as the fourth world in the entourage of Robert Palmer''s Star, drifting in a far-flung sector of the galaxy known as the Dragon''s Maw. <br><br>Jaro is haunted by memories of his dead mother''s terror, and he is about to find out why . . .</p>