false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169512178m/40876.jpg 40876 4 Jack Vance is one of the best-loved storytellers in science fiction. Here, collected in one volume, is the Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best.The Alastor Cluster is a sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets. It is ruled by the mysterious Connatic, who sees all and knows all, but with five trillion people contained within such far-flung boundaries, sooner or later something is bound to give.Trullion: Alastor 2262 : An idyllic world where food is bountiful and the oceans are clear. World 2262 is in for a rude awakening. The Trill, the once-peaceful race that populates the waters of Trullion, are gambling their lives away in the planet-wide game, hussade.Marune: Alastor 933 : Though the Connatic knows all, there is one man of whom he knows nothing, one man who knows nothing of himself. Pardero is determined to find out who he is and what cruel enemy forced him to forget his own life. But when he finally returns home to Marune, World 933, the mystery only deepens.Wyst: Alastor 1716 : On Wyst, World 1716, millions of people live together in harmony, work only a few hours each week, and share the fruits of their labor equally. Wyst seems a Utopia. But the Connatic, knowing better than to take Utopia at face value, one day decides to investigatea decision that may cost him his life. 40461 1978 Alastor total:73|5:1|4:1|3:0|2:0|1:0| 73 296 89 2 3 0 false false Fri Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 07:24:42 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 07:30:58 -0800 2008
Features richly imagined settings with fascinating characters.

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