Planet of Adventure
by Jack Vance
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Read in November, 2007
An Earthman (Adam Reith) is marooned on a planet dominated by four alien races. To his astonishment he discovers humans also inhabit this planet as one of the alien races took their ancestors from Earth in the distant past. Each alien race has cultivated a sub-race of humans to serve them.
This book is actual four novels that detail Adam Reith's adventures as he tries to escape back to Earth. In each novel Reith learns a little more about the cruel planet and confronts one of the four alien ...more
This book is actual four novels that detail Adam Reith's adventures as he tries to escape back to Earth. In each novel Reith learns a little more about the cruel planet and confronts one of the four alien ...more
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Read in October, 2007
recommends it for:
the discerning
i'm rereading this for the third time, i think. it's another one of those (vance's whole oeuvre is). while, superficially, a science fiction adventure story (and a very good one!), this book is, in fact, a primer of ethnography and linguistics, among other things, without ever being dry, and written with vance's inimitable verve and verbal acrobatics. the only reason i didn't give it five stars is because it's not his best book, which, frankly, is too good for for you! that book is...more
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That hokey title can't overshadow the fact that this is an amazingly fun and interesting book. Intrepid spacefarer Adam Reith crash lands on a mysterious planet that he finds even more mysteriously saturated with humans. How did they get there, under the yoke of alien enslavement? Deftly questions notions of freedom, servitude, and religion, while also being consistently totally exciting. Hate to say it, but it's definitely a planet of adventure.
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I loved this. If you like planetary romance and adventure this book rules. Awesome characters, dialogue, descriptions, etc. Typical of Vance. The plot is pretty linear and is basically one set of adventures after another (hence the omnibus name), and that makes it all the more fun because of the high quality of the writing. Vance sure does love taverns, inns and food.
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