The Pnume

The mystery-shrouded aliens of Tschai held him captive in a labyrinth of terror. The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living undergound in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin. The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting its past with scholarly disinterest. Surface-dwellers never saw the Pnume, if the surface-dwellers were lucky. Adam Reith was not so fortunate. The Pnume had heard rumors of a strangeman, claining to come from the planet Earth, and they needed him for Foreverness, the museum of Tschai life. Adam Reith was about to become an alien exhibit.