Alastor series ( Books 1-3) by Jack Vance
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Overview: Jack Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001. A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices".
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Trullion: Alastor 2262. Trullion – world 2262 of the Alastor Cluster — is a water-world of fens, mists, and idyllic islands set in clear oceans whose teeming richness provides food for the taking. The Trill are a carefree, easy-living people, but violence enters their lives during the raids of the Starmenters, freebooting galactic pirates who live short, perilous lives in pursuit of adventure, rape and pillage. And then there’s the planet-wide game of hussade, when the Trill’s passion for gambling drives them to risk all — even life itself — on the hazardous water-chessboard gaming fields. Their prize? The virginal body of the beautiful sheirl-maiden, the body any Trill is willing to die for……
2. Marune: Alastor 933. A mysterious amnesiac is found at a distant spaceport. The science of the Alastor Cluster is unable to do anything but determine his home planet and culture: he is a Rhune from the planet Marune — Alastor 933. When he returns home, he learns that he is a powerful landowner whose household is faced with an important alliance. But which of these scheming nobles destroyed his memory?
3. Wyst: Alastor 1716. 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, one day decides to investigate — a decision that may cost him his life.
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