Night Lamp

Night Lamp
Night Lamp  
Author(s) Jack Vance
Country United States
Language English
Series Gaean Reach
Genre(s) Science fiction novel
Publisher Tor books
Publication date 1996
Media type Print (Paperback)
Pages 384 pp
ISBN 0312864728
OCLC Number 34583850
LC Classification PS3572.A424 N54 1996

Night Lamp is a science fiction adventure novel by Jack Vance. It follows an orphan named Jaro Fath on his quest to learn where he came from.

Plot summary

When the Faths, a childless academic couple, save young Jaro from a near-fatal beating, they discover he suffers from not just physical wounds, but also the crippling memory of his mother's death, which must be erased. Adopted by them, he grows up an outsider in a world of constant striving for social status, his only goal to become a spaceman and discover the truth of his missing memories. His journey takes him to Fader, a planet closed to the rest of the galaxy, whose inhabitants long ago engineered slave races to support their aristocratic lifestyle. Though Fader's Golden Age has long passed, and they now live in fear of many of their creations, they still maintain a fierce pride. Together with his father, Jaro must find a way to bring justice for his mother.

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v · Jack Vance
Dying Earth series
Demon Princes series
Planet of Adventure series
Durdane series
The Anome  · The Brave Free Men  · The Asutra
Alastor series
Trullion: Alastor 2262  · Marune: Alastor 933  · Wyst: Alastor 1716
Lyonesse series
Suldrun's Garden  · The Green Pearl  · Madouc
The Cadwal Chronicles
Araminta Station  · Ecce and Old Earth  · Throy
Other novels
The Five Gold Bands  · Vandals of the Void  · To Live Forever  · Big Planet  · The Languages of Pao  · Slaves of the Klau  · Space Opera  · The Houses of Iszm  · The Blue World  · Emphyrio  · The Gray Prince  · Showboat World  · Maske: Thaery  · Galactic Effectuator  · Night Lamp  · Ports of Call  · Lurulu
Short stories/novellas
"Telek"  · "Gateway to Strangeness"  · "The Dragon Masters"  · "The Last Castle"  · "The Moon Moth"  · "Son of the Tree"  · "Monsters in Orbit"  · "The Brains of Earth"  · "Rumfuddle"  · "The New Prime"  · "Men of the Twelve Books"  · "Noise"  · "Ullward's Retreat"

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