Jack Vance is one of the giants of science fiction and winner of Edgar and Hugo Awards. The Dragon Masters was his first Hugo Awardwinning novel, one of only 50 or more Hugo Awardwinning novels, and thus a true sf classic.Jack Vance has been central to the sf and fantasy worlds for half a century. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction says, He has a genius of place. Like Zelazny and Bester, he has had enduring appeal because his work was forwardthinking and radical for its time. In The Dragon Masters, the first of ibooks definitive reissues of his work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the life of a boy born into and growing up in a static, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion. A Rebel Without a Cause for an Alien world.