The Pnume were a historical race of the planet Tschai, living underground within a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin. The Pnume had been the historians of Tschai, collecting its past with ruthless and scholarly commitment. Surface dwellers never saw the Pnume-if these were lucky. Adam Reith had not been so fortunate. The Pnume experienced heard rumors of the strange man claiming to attended from the planet Earth, plus they desired him for Foreverness, the museum of Tschai existence. Adam Reith was about to become an alien display.

This, the fourth and final novel of Jack Vance’s classic group of the Planet of Adventure, is complete in itself but presents a surprising and exciting climax to Vance’s greatest creation.

“Spectacular adventure, dastardly villains, gorgeous women, baroque landscapes, every served up with the inimitable, incomparable Vance style and wit: dazzlingly inventive, utterly delightful, and absolutely, unequivocally necessary to any collection.”-Kirkus Testimonials, praise for the series