ALL THREE ALASTOR NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets, the cluster is ruled by the mysterious Connatic. He sees all and knows all, but with five trillion people contained within such far-flung boundaries, sooner or later something is bound to give. Each story is centered on a particular world of Alastor, each with its own peculiar customs, a staple of Jack Vance's writings: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (first published in 1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978).
ALL THREE ALASTOR NOVELS IN ONE VOLUME The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited ...
The Palace of Love (Book 3 of 5 in Demon Princes series, Russian translation) Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of origin - Earth Then the trail moves outward again, to the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is actually a Palace of Love.
The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon...
The Palace of Love (Book 3 of 5 in Demon Princes series, Russian translation) Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falus...
Demon Princes, Russian translation. All five books in one volume "Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end. Your work will be the destruction of evil men..." These words define Kirth Gersen's destiny. Gersen has but one purpose: to destroy the five Demon Princes, most notorious criminals in the Reach.
The Demon Princes is a five-book series of science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of one Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his...
Demon Princes, Russian translation. All five books in one volume "Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end. You...
"Galactic Effectuator" is an omnibus containing two of the famous detective "science fiction" stories written by the grandmaster of the genre, Jack Vance. This is a classic Vance: breathtaking adventures on colorful and dangerous planets, exotic customs of races evolved in unique conditions, and, of course, moving fast on the vivid background of it all, a brave and clever man, moderately quixotic but never forgetting his self-interest. Vance's protagonist, Miro Hetzel, is a top-notch interstellar private investigator who solves two tangled and risky cases. In the first story, "Dogtown...
"Galactic Effectuator" is an omnibus containing two of the famous detective "science fiction" stories written by the grandmaster of the genre, Jack Va...
The Cadwal Chronicles, Russian translation. All three books in one volume At the remote end of Mircea's Wisp, far out on the galaxy's Perseid Arm, is the Purple Rose System, containing the three stars Lorca, Sing and Syrene. Around Syrene swings the spectacular planet Cadwal, which the now defunct Naturalist Society of Earth long ago chartered to forever protect from exploitation. Cadwal is administered from Araminta Station - where young Glawen Clattuc wonders what the future may hold for him in the hierarchic, constrained society of Cadwal. His budding relationship with the...
The Cadwal Chronicles, Russian translation. All three books in one volume At the remote end of Mircea's Wisp, far out on the galaxy's Pers...
Myron Tany is an unhappy young economist until his flamboyant great-aunt lets him captain her space yacht on an interstellar hunt for a clinic rumored to restore youth. But when a disagreement with Dame Hester leaves Myron stranded on a distant planet, he signs on as supercargo aboard the tramp freighter Glicca. He travels the exotic worlds of the Gaean Reach, finding adventure or misadventure at every touchdown. Jack Vance, grandmaster of lighthearted space opera, shapes a picaresque tale of adventure, romance, humor, and youth's eternal yearning to see the wonders that lie beyond the...
Myron Tany is an unhappy young economist until his flamboyant great-aunt lets him captain her space yacht on an interstellar hunt for a clinic rumored...