Beloved, ground-breaking science fiction scribe Jack Vance is nearly a hundred years old, and has won multiple Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards for his science fiction writing.
Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: the evil are charming, the good are dangerous.