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The Hand of Zei

Written by L. Sprague de Camp Published in 1981 by Owlswick Press Title 2 in Viagens Interplanetarias series.

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The second book of his Viagens Interplanetarias series and its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Krishna.

Travel writer Dirk Barnevelt and lecturer George Tangaloa, associates of interplanetary explorer and documentarian Igor Shtain, are drafted on Shtain's disappearance to complete his commission to explore the Sargasso Sea-like Sunqar area of Krishna's Banjao Sea — and incidentally to find Shtain, who is suspected to have been kidnapped to Krishna. Arriving on the planet, the Earthmen travel to their goal in disguise as native Krishnans; Barnevelt himself is given the alias of the famous general, Snyol of Plesht, from the Antarctic nation of Nichnyamadze (setting of the Krishnan short story "Calories"). Snyol's formidable reputation proves at various times both a boon and a hindrance to their mission.

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This novel edition contains the following titles:

1. The Search for Zei  (1962)

2. The Hand of Zei  (1963)

Publication History

Publication history in print:

• The Hand of Zei (published by Owlswick Press in 1981)