By Jack Vance
ISBN-10: 185798885X
ISBN-13: 9781857988857
A long way sooner or later, the craftsmen of the far away planet Halma create items that are the beauty of the galaxy. yet they understand little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its faith austere and unforgiving, and primitive -- to keep up criteria, even the main easy use of automation is punishable by way of dying. whilst Amiante, a wood-carver, is achieved for processing outdated files with a digital camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and comes to a decision to convey down the process. to take action, he needs to first interpret the tale of Emphyrio, an historical hero of Halman legend.
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The realities of commercial publishing are such that vast troves of classic SF & Fantasy are almost certainly destined never again to see print. Until very recently, this meant that anyone interested in reading any of these books would have been confined to scouring second-hand bookshops. The advent of digital publishing has changed that paradigm for ever. The technology now exists to enable us to make available, for the first time, the entire backlists of an incredibly wide range of classic and modern SF and fantasy authors.
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Until very recently, this meant that anyone interested in reading any of these books would have been confined to scouring second-hand bookshops. The advent of digital publishing has changed that paradigm for ever. The technology now exists to enable us to make available, for the first time, the entire backlists of an incredibly wide range of classic and modern SF and fantasy authors. Our plan is, at its simplest, to use this technology to build on the success of the SF and Fantasy Masterworks series and to go even further.
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