Maske: Thaery-Jack Vance novel, book review
Maske: Thaery-Jack Vance novel Maske: Thaery was first published in 1976 and is currently available in a high quality paperback edition by Spatterlight Press. My Berkeley/Putnam out of print hardcover copy is 181 pages long. Maske is a planet and Thaery is a region on the planet that is composed of 13 different "districts" or "counties". The district our main character, Jubal Droad, is from is called Glentlin. People from Glentlin are known as Glints and are considered independent and proud but also rather crude and boisterous. For many years Glentlin was independent from the 12 districts of Thaery whose people were called Thariots. But the Glints were conquered after three centuries of piracy and conflict so that Glentlin is now one of the 13 districts of Thaery. The original inhabitants of the planet are called Saidanese (homo moras) and cannot interbreed with homo gaeas, the people from the planet of Diosophede who came to Maske many ye...