Saturday, November 16, 2019

Slaves of the Klau

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''Slaves of the Klau'' is a science fiction novel by [[Jack Vance]] written in 1958. It is about a man, Roy Barch, who is kidnapped by an alien race to serve as human prey for alien hunters. He develops a plan to escape back to earth by stealing a ship from the Klau.
==Plot==
Roy Barch is kidnapped by an alien race called the Klau. He is taken to their home of Magarak to serve as a slave. After he escapes into the mountains and lives with a band of escaped slaves, he realizes that the Klau tolerate escapees like him because they are used as prey to hunt. Barch steals a Klau anti-gravity vessel with the intention of making it space-worthy so that he can fly back to Earth.

[[Category:1958 short stories]]
[[Category:Science fiction novels]]
[[Category:Novels by Jack Vance]]


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