City of the Chasch Audiobook (Free)

When someone sent stress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith’s misfortune to be sent from Globe to investigate. Because when his dispatch came near Tschai, it was torpedoed-and Adam escaped to the surface with his life and nothing at all else.

On Tschai, a vast, previously unexplored planet, Adam is taken as a slave by human beings and learns that we now have four other intelligent but nonhuman races dominant on this strange world. To resolve the mystery from the distress call as well as the vicious assault on his ship, he must first gain his independence, then find secure passage by the city as well as the alien Chasch and their treacherous cousins, the Blue Chasch.

Jack port Vance’s Tschai novels are believed his masterwork, a constantly changing epic canvas of weird peoples, spectacular lands, and surprising extraterrestrial adventures.

“Unique adventure, dastardly villains, beautiful women, baroque landscapes, every served up with the inimitable, incomparable Vance style and wit: dazzlingly inventive, utterly wonderful, and absolutely, unequivocally essential to any kind of collection.”-Kirkus Evaluations, praise for the series