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A spectacular Hugo award-winning book from master literary stylist Jack Vance. What a story - set in a universe where just a few humans scrabble out a life on a tiny little world, subject to invasion by a strange alien race. The dragons are captured aliens, bred as mounts in battle.
  ('The Dragon Masters' by Jack Vance)
 
 
  'The Dragon Masters' by Jack Vance
 
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