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Informationen zum Autor Jack Vance , born John Holbrook Vance in 1916, was one of the greatest masters of fantasy and science fiction. He was the winner of many awards for his work and career: the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement. Among his awards for particular works were the Hugo award in 1963 for The Dragon Masters , in 1967 for The Last Castle , and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance! He won a Nebula Award in 1966 for The Last Castle . He won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc . He also won an Edgar for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage. Vance published more than 60 books in his career, sometimes under pseudonyms. Among them were eleven mystery novels, three of them as Ellery Queen. He wrote some of the first, and perhaps best, examples of "planetary adventures", including a novel called Big Planet . His ¿Dying Earth¿ series were among the most influential fantasy novels ever written, inspiring both generations of writers, and the creators of Dungeons and Dragons. Vance¿s series from Tor include The Demon Princes , The Cadwal Chronicles , The Dying Earth , The Planet of Adventure , and Alastor . Vance¿s last novels were a series of two: Ports of Call and Lurulu. Jack Vance was a sailor, a writer, an adventurer, a music critic, and a raconteur. He died in May 2013. Klappentext Here, collected in one volume, is his Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best. Trullion: Alastor 2262 / Marune: Alastor 933 / Wyst: Alastor 1716 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. Trullion: Alastor 2262 : An idyllic world where food is bountiful, the oceans are clear, and no one is ever wanting, World 2262 of the Alastor Cluster is in for a rude awakening. The Trill, a once-peaceful race populating the waters of Trullion, are now gambling their lives away on the planet-wide game hussade. What reward could be worth such risks? Marune: Alastor 933 : Though the Connatic knows all, there is one man of whom he knows nothing, one man who knows nothing of himself. Pardero is determined to find out who he is and what cruel enemy forced him to forget his own life. But when he finally returns home to Marune, World 933 of the Alastor Cluster, the mystery only deepens. 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, knowing better than to take utopia at face value, one day decides to investigate-a decision that may cost him his life. ...
