Twistor
by John Cramer | 
A Heritage of Stars
by Clifford D. Simak | 
Flux
by Stephen Baxter | 
Recursion
by Tony Ballantyne | 
The X Factor
by Andre Norton | 
The Regiment's War
by John Dalmas | 
The Trafalgar Gambit
by Christopher G. Nuttall | 
Void Black Shadow
by Corey J. White |
West of Honor
by Jerry Pournelle | 
Marooned in Realtime
by Vernor Vinge | 
Entoverse
by James P. Hogan | 
Giants' Star
by James P. Hogan | 
Implied Spaces
by Walter Jon Williams | 
Servants of the Wankh
by Jack Vance | 
Antares Dawn
by Michael McCollum | 
The Demon Princes
by Jack Vance | 
The Book of Dreams
by Jack Vance | 
The Killing Machine
by Jack Vance | 
The Star King
by Jack Vance | 
The Face
by Jack Vance |
In the midpoint novel of the "Demon Princes" series, Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. Vance describes this murderous creature as a "sybarite." "Sadistic pervert" would probably be a more apropos phrase.After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of origin --- Earth, of all places! Then the trail moves outward again, to the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is actually a physical Palace of Love!