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Its a fun read, but i doubt anyone will list it as their favorite of all time. He was the author of dozens of scifi books and fantasy novels, including the popular lyonesse and dying earth series and the hugo and nebula awardwinning book the last castle. It keeps jack vance s signature style, but tones it down a bit and applies it to a procedural story. The demon princes series was the first long novel series that jack vance started, and it took the longest to complete. Featuring the restored text from the vance integral edition. The starship explorator iv is destroyed after entering orbit around the planet tschai. On the fringes of the gaean reach, the planet durdane is united under the federation of shant, and ruled by the reclusive anomewho coerces the population using explosive rings around the neck of every adult citizen.
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