City of the Chasch

I haven't read Vance before and had no idea what to expect. City of the Chasch was published in 1968, but it would fit in with SF of an earlier era - the 1930s or 40's, or even earlier. It puts me in mind of John Carter's adventures on Barsoom by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

The attitudes are a bit dated. The only virtue of women is their beauty. Putting adversaries to death is done rather cavalierly. The protagonist is from Earth of the future, but his general outlook is from the nineteenth century.