Emphyrio

Work by machines is banned on Halma, where the effete Lords run a mock welfare state that pays painful hand labour with a pitiful dole. Young Ghyl Tarvok takes a pirated spaceship across the galaxy after the secret that could free his people. Doubleday published Vance's novel in 1969; this Dell of September 1970 was its first paperback, with a map of the city of Ambroy.