Slaves of the Klau Jack Vance 1982

Slaves of the Klau Jack Vance 1982

The sea spreads leaden, listless; they drift over dreary mud-flats. Ahead appears a long black line which, as the barge draws near, breaks up into clots of men, moving slow as cold ants as they fit great stones together. They will arrive at any moment...

Barch, an Earther, and Komeitk Lelianr, the beautiful stranger from a far world, have together been captured and transported to Magarak by the Klau, great black creatures whose faces are stiff with black bristles and eyes gleam like polished jet. Somehow they escape to the wild mountains where trees clater in the dank wind as it roars through the valley – but soon they must form a daring plan – for this inhospitable ground is where the Klau hunt down escaped slaves, for sport...