Araminta Station

By (author): "Jack Vance"
Publish Date: 1987
Araminta Station
ISBN0450423786
ISBN139780450423789
AsinAraminta Station
Original titleAraminta Station
SeriesCadwal Chronicles #1, Gaean Reach
The beautiful planet Cadwal is protected by a Charter of Conservancy and administered from the settlement of Araminta Station. Young Glawen Clattuc faces his sixteenth birthday with apprehension as to what his future will bring in the stifling ancestral hierarchy that Cadwal society has become. Glawen is a talented youth, but he has enemies. His blossoming relationship with the lovely Sessilly Veder seems to offer some fresh hope, but her mysterious disappearance casts Glawen deep into a strange adventure when he sets out to investigate her fate. A dangerous trail of sedition and strange rituals, discovered on a previously deserted island, leads Glawen to a distant nunnery and the unravelling of a potent conspiracy. Brilliantly conceived, fabulously to