City of the Chasch-Jack Vance novel, book review
City of the Chasch-Jack Vance novel AKA: The Chasch (author’s preferred title) Planet of Adventure 1 Tschai Book 1 City of the Chasch, also known as The Chasch, was first published as a paperback novel in 1968. My copy is 141 pages long. It is the first of four novels in the Planet of Adventure series about the planet Tschai. It is in print in paperback along with the other three novels under the title Planet of Adventure by Orb books and is also available in a trade paperback edition by Spatterlight Press. Each of the four novels in the Planet of Adventure or Tschai series includes the main character, Adam Reith, and the same basic storyline. There are four main civilizations on Tschai. Each involves an intelligent, scientifically advanced species. Three of them originally came there from another planet. Each seems to hate the other species and use humans as servants. The series is more science fiction than fantasy but with the emphasis on fiction rather than science. Much ...