City of the Chasch Author:Jack Vance When the Explorator IV is dispatched to Carina 4269 to investigate a distress signal, Adam Reith is one of the scouts on the mission. Quiet and competent, he is still unprepared when the Explorator IV is destroyed by a missile from the planet's surface, and his scout ship plummets to the surface. Reith survives (barely) and is found by a dour no... more »madic people called the Kruthe, or Emblem Men. Reith quickly discovers that Tschai, as the world is called, is like no other.« less