# The Pnume

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- Authors: [Jack Vance](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-vance)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-12-19

## Description

The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin: The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting its past with ruthless and scholarly dedication. Surface-dwellers never saw the Pnume - if they were lucky. Adam Reith was not so fortunate. The Pnume had heard rumors of a strange man, claiming to have come from the planet Earth, and they wanted him for Foreverness, the museum of Tschai life. Adam Reith was about to become an alien exhibit.

## Editions

### The Pnume

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-964-3
- Published: 2011-12-19
- Language: en_GB