The Five Gold Bands

The Five Gold Bands
Cover of first standalone edition
(1953, Toby Press)
AuthorJack Vance
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
Publication date
1950
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages128

The Five Gold Bands is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published in the November 1950 issue of Startling Stories magazine. It was published in 1953 as a separate book under the title The Space Pirate, and in 1963 it was paired with Vance's Hugo Award-winning novella The Dragon Masters in the form of an Ace Double.