Read Series: Alastor
by Author Jack Vance
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1980)
On Wyst, world 1716 of the Alastor Cluster, 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, mysterious ruler of the Alastor Cluster, knowing better that to take utopia at face value, ...
Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
The name of the planet is Trullion! World #2262 of the Alastor Cluster! The descriptions of this beautiful world and its backwoods society of islands and watery fens were the best part of the novel. As always, the author conveys a lot with a little; his spare prose is wonderfully stylish and his ...
Marune: Alastor 933 (1981)
"By an axiom of cultural anthropology, the more isolated a community, the more idiosyncratic become its customs and conventions. This of course is not necessarily disadvantageous."The Rhune are an aloof and eccentric culture. Lords of a beautiful, mountainous realm on the planet Marune of the Ala...