Big Planet series by Jack Vance (Books #1-2)
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Overview: Jack Vance was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to sf and fantasy magazines. His first novel, ‘The Dying Earth’, was published in 1950 to great acclaim. Since then he won both of sf’s most coveted trophies, the Hugo and Nebula awards; he also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel ‘The Man in the Cage’.
Genre: Fiction ยป Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Big Planet (Big Planet #1)
The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet…and to prevent the whole world from falling under this tyrant’s domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crashland and the priority changes. The survivors face an epic 40,000-mile trek to safety across a vast and unknown landscape where monsters, natives, and government agents harass them and fight each other. The sophisticated concept of the Big Planet itself, with its huge size and negligible resources, along with Jack Vance’s baroque style, changed the planetary romance forever. An epic work and a sci fi landmark.
The Magnificent Showboats (Big Planet #2) aka Showboat World
From Handbook of the Inhabited Worlds: "Big Planet lies beyond the frontier of terrestrial law, and has been settled by groups impatient with restraint: non-conformists, anarchists, fugitives, religious dissidents, misanthropes, deviants, freaks. Big Planet represents for us that tantalizing vision of the land beyond the frontier where bravery, resource and daring are more important than the mastery of urban abstractions. Who can deem this good or bad? Who can define justice, or correctness or truth? Big Planet is in essence a problem to which there exists no solution".Shipmasters who run the magnificent showboats along the rivers of Big Planet know that each port has unique character and sensitivities. Apollon Zamp and Garth Ashgale are adept at dodging danger; two of the wiliest rascals in the business, they are deadly rivals to boot. When Zamp sets out to compete at the Grand Festival at Mornune, he knows Ashgale is never far behind!
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