The Star King
Oct 2012 · Hachette UK
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The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonists parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the "demon princes". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one by one. In the process Vance does what he excels at: creating strange worlds, environments, customs, and adaptations that humans have made to live in these conditions.
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January 1, 2025
The first of a series of five Demon Prince novels that are a classic and colourful galactic manhunt around various vividly portrayed worlds with some fabulously outlandish characters encountered along the way by an avenging and brutally effective Kirth Gersen. Something for those who want a clear, cinematic, linear story to romp around the galaxy rather than exploring philosophical or moral ideas. Great fun!!
About the author
Jack Vance (1916 - )Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining, engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
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