This is a kind of collection of short stories kind of novel in stories from the mid-1950s by the science fiction writer Jack Vance. This is both a deeply influential book and one that feels kind of out of date already. Or maybe it’s a kind of they don’t make them like this anymore. But also they kind of do, because this is very similar to the early Hainish novels of Ursula Le Guin and the New Sun novels of Gene Wolfe. So anyway, we […]