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Find sources: "Throy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Throy Cover of the first edition Cover art by Vincent Di Fate Author Jack Vance Series Cadwal Chronicles Genre Science fiction Publisher Underwood-Miller Publication date 1992 Preceded by Ecce and Old Earth ***Throy*** is a 1992 [science fiction](/source/Science_fiction) novel by American writer [Jack Vance](/source/Jack_Vance), the final work in the [Cadwal Chronicles](/source/Cadwal_Chronicles), a [trilogy](/source/Trilogy) set in Vance's [Gaean Reach](/source/Gaean_Reach). The preceding novels are *[Araminta Station](/source/Araminta_Station)* (1987) and *[Ecce and Old Earth](/source/Ecce_and_Old_Earth)* (1991). ## Plot summary By this point, Bureau B has identified the two factions seeking to overthrow the Conservancy that protects and administers the nearly unspoiled planet Cadwal. Smonny Clattuc controls the Yips through her compliant husband, Titus Pompo. By chance, Titus resembles Calyactus, the former Yip leader. Calyactus was disposed of and replaced by Titus. Smonny seeks vengeance for having to leave Cadwal, even though it was her own laziness that caused her to fail to achieve Agency status. The other faction is the Life, Peace and Freedom party (LPF), led by Dame Clytie Vergence. Initially the LPFers idealistically sought to free the Yips from their sorry state, but now their goal is to create large country estates for themselves, keeping some of the Yips as servants. Egon Tamm, the Conservator, announces that the old Charter governing Cadwal (which was found through the efforts of Glawen Clattuc and Wayness Tamm) has been superseded by a new, somewhat stricter one. However, Bureau B is under no illusions that the danger has been averted. Glawen Clattuc is sent off-world with Eustace Chilke to feel out Lewyn Barduys, a construction magnate who had been seen talking with Dame Clytie. Bureau B fears that Barduys will be persuaded to provide enough transportation for the Yips to burst out of their severely overcrowded atoll and overwhelm the Conservancy with their vastly greater numbers. When Glawen finally tracks Barduys down, he and Chilke arrive just in time to save the man's life. Barduys had had unsatisfactory business dealings with Namour Clattuc, Smonny's lieutenant and lover. Namour decided the best way to deal with the matter was to shoot Barduys and leave the gravely injured man to die or be killed by the hostile alien natives. After Barduys recovers, he has strong reasons to aid Glawen and the Conservancy. He arranges for a face-to-face summit meeting with Smonny and Dame Clytie, supposedly to settle the details of their plan. The two women have very different goals and ideas of who is to be in overall charge, and soon come to furious blows. As a result, Smonny sends Yips with demolition charges to send the settlement of Stroma crashing into the fjord below. Dame Clytie and the rest of the LPF leadership were not at home, but their families and their ancient homes have been wiped out. Thirsting for revenge, they attack Yipton with their two gunships, killing most of the Yips. The LPFers are caught while trying to leave the planet, and are sentenced to death. Smonny, Namour and Spanchetta Clattuc (guilty of harboring the other two and also of having Glawen's mother murdered many years before) are also found. The trio are marooned in Smonny's own isolated compound on the dangerous, uninhabited continent of Ecce. Barduys resettles the surviving Yips on another planet, finally ending the threat to the Conservancy. ## External links - [*Throy*](https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4419) title listing at the [Internet Speculative Fiction Database](/source/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database) v t e Works by Jack Vance Dying Earth The Dying Earth The Eyes of the Overworld Cugel's Saga Rhialto the Marvellous related Dying Earth (genre) Songs of the Dying Earth Demon Princes Star King The Killing Machine The Palace of Love The Face The Book of Dreams Planet of Adventure City of the Chasch Servants of the Wankh The Dirdir The Pnume Durdane The Anome The Brave Free Men The Asutra Alastor Trullion: Alastor 2262 Marune: Alastor 933 Wyst: Alastor 1716 Lyonesse Suldrun's Garden The Green Pearl Madouc Cadwal Chronicles Araminta Station Ecce and Old Earth Throy Ports of Call Ports of Call Lurulu Big Planet Big Planet Showboat World Other works The Five Gold Bands Vandals of the Void To Live Forever The Languages of Pao Slaves of the Klau Space Opera The Best of Jack Vance The Blue World Emphyrio Bad Ronald The Gray Prince Maske: Thaery Galactic Effectuator Night Lamp The Dark Ocean The House on Lily Street Strange People, Queer Notions The Deadly Isles The Flesh Mask Short fiction "Abercrombie Station" "The Brains of Earth" "Cholwell's Chickens" "Dodkin's Job" The Dragon Masters "Gateway to Strangeness" "The Gift of Gab" The Houses of Iszm The Last Castle "Men of the Ten Books" The Miracle Workers "Monsters in Orbit" "The Moon Moth" "The New Prime" "Noise" "Rumfuddle" Son of the Tree Telek "Ullward's Retreat" Autobiography This Is Me, Jack Vance! See also Grue Gaean Reach Baron Bodissey Ellery Queen Bad Ronald --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Throy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throy) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throy?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.