Pursuit of the Screamer is a science fiction novel written by the American writer Ansen Dibell, first published in 1978.

Jannus is the son of Mistress Lillia, the ruler of Newstock, a village near the river in Bremner.

The Valde are tall, beautiful, filled with quick animal instincts, sexually mature at nine and dead of old age around thirty, and gifted with empathy; the power to feel one's emotions.

Together with a merchant family, the Innsmiths (a corruption of Ironsmith) and a number of Valde warriors Jannus follows the river downstream.

After a number of adventures the Tek, Jannus, Poli and the leader of the merchant family find themselves in the desert trying to reach the location where the Shai is, the huge intelligence guiding the star ship that brought the Teks to the world, to end the endless cycle of reincarnation.