Araminta Station

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The planet "Cadwal" is
forever set aside as a natural perserve, owned and administered by the
Naturalist Society of Earth, and inhabited by a very limited number of
skilled human scientists and their families. But this system has been
complicated by the passing centuries, and has become a byzantine culture
where every place in the Houses of Cadwal is the object of savage
competition.
In "Araminta Station", the first volume of "The Cadwal Chronicles",
Jack Vance has constructed a brilliant, complex tale of revenge and
murder, of love and alien intrigue, and set it glittering among the
stars of the Purple Rose System.