Here, collected in one volume, is his Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best.
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Jan 03, 2012
Perry
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Three separate stories set on different planets of the Alastor Cluster, a vast empire of 5 trillion future humans within thousands of diverse cultures, all loosely ruled by the benign stewardship of the Connatic, who keeps abridged of events from the Ring of the Worlds situated on Numenes, where each planet has a number and its own high-tech information chamber. A physically unprepossessing man when not appearing ceremonially, the Connatic likes to understand the people first hand, and tales of
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Jul 29, 2011
Alejandro
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A pity. Jack Vance is usually so much better... Three stories following more or less the same pattern, with kind of similar resolutions at the end. The context really lent itself to so much more, but the end result turned out somewhat banal and trivial. "The Dying Earth" stories are infinitelly better...
Nov 28, 2008
William
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An omnibus edition including three previously released novels.
Features richly imagined settings with fascinating characters.
Vance shows his usual genius for villains.
Features richly imagined settings with fascinating characters.
Vance shows his usual genius for villains.
Jul 02, 2011
Frode
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This is a trilogy. I like Vance. He is conservative. The themes of capitalism and individual freedom run through these stories.
Jan 09, 2008
Bob(by)
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Actually only read the first story in it. I will just say that Jack Vance is a master of prose. Why do so many science fiction writers have good ideas yet have to suck so bad at writing? His stories aren't even that out there, his plots are pretty mundane, yet his weird and funny characters, dialogue, and descriptions make it perfectly okay.
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