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Author Vance, Jack, 1916-2013, author.

Title The houses of Iszm ; Son of the tree / Jack Vance.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Ace Books, [1964], ©1964.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Teller  813.54 V277h 1964    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 125, 130 pages ; 18 cm.
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Ace double
Ace double-novel books ; F-265.
Note Two works issued in dos-à-dos (inverted) binding.
Summary The houses if Iszm. The people of Iszm live in houses created from living tree-like plants and they alone know the secret of cultivating these plants. Aliens from other worlds have been trying for decades to break the monopoly by stealing a female house-seed.
Son of the tree. When Joe Smith arrives on Kyril he finds a society dominated by "druids" who control the worship of a huge tree with a trunk five miles in diameter twelve miles high. Joe is taken for a spy and must flee Kyril, but at the same time he discovers the true nature of the tree.
Subject Life on other planets -- Fiction.
Tree houses -- Fiction.
Tree worship -- Fiction.
Life on other planets. (OCoLC)fst00998301
Tree houses. (OCoLC)fst01155940
Tree worship. (OCoLC)fst01155977
Genre/Form Science fiction, American.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
Science fiction.
Science fiction.
Dos-à-dos bindings (Binding)
Added Author Vance, Jack, 1916-2013. Houses of Iszm.
Vance, Jack, 1916-2013. Son of the tree.
Added Title Son of the tree

 
    
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