I've written an authorized sequel to Jack Vance's iconic series, The Demon Princes

Barbarians of the Beyond is not the further adventures of Kirth Gerson, but a companion novel that takes place during the time frame of the first two DP novels, The Star King and The Killing Machine.

Here's the draft back-cover blurb:

Twenty-some years ago, the five master criminals known as the Demon Princes raided the peaceful community of Mount Pleasant to carry off its five thousand inhabitants into bondage in the lawless Beyond. Now Morwen Sabine, daughter of slaves, has escaped her cruel master and returns to Mount Pleasant to recover the hidden treasure that can buy her parents’ freedom.

But things have changed and Morwen finds she has to cope with mystic cultists, murderous drug-smugglers, undercover “weasels” of the Interplanetary Police Coordinating Company, and the henchmen of the vicious pirate lord who owns her parents and wants Morwen returned – so he can kill her slowly.

Barbarians of the Beyond is a return to “Jack Vance Space” and space-opera derring-do that follows in the science fiction grandmaster’s footsteps.

John Vance and I have been sending out an ARC and already have laudatory blurbs from George R.R. Martin, David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer, Glen Cook, and Kurt Busiek.

We're looking to interest a larger-than-small press in taking on the novel. If not, it will be published by John's Spatterlight Press as a POD paperback and ebook.