Araminta Station

Cover art: Boris Vallejo.

The planet Cadwal is forever set aside as a natural preserve, owned and administered by the Naturalist Society of Earth, and inhabited by a very limited number of skilled human scientists and their families. But this simple, straightforward plan has been complicated by the passing centuries, and has become a Byzantine culture where every place in the Houses of Cadwal is the object of Savage competition.

In Araminta Station, the first volume of The Cadwal Chronicles, Jack Vance has constructed a brilliant, complex tale of revenge and murder, of love and alien intrigue, and set it glittering among the stars of the Purple Rose System.