Description: For sale are Big Planet and Showboat World by Jack Vance, perhaps the premier stylist and purveyor of exotic colorful, fantasy-tinged science fiction. His books are wonderfully adroit at portraying the alien world and lifestyle in all its “mundane” detail, creating the alien and exotic as commonplace. But first and foremost, they are exotic adventures – usually in frontier situations: the colonies, fringes and outposts of human empire – tales of journeys and quests with touches of the satirical and picturesque. Big Planet - 1952, Ace Books G-661 1957. Big Planet was first published in Startling Stories (September 1952). The setting is an immense, but metal-poor and backward world called Big Planet. Novel was instrumental in the development of the planetary romance form, perhaps the first attempt at a convincingly complete imaginary world in genre SF. It is not the characters who serve as the book's protagonists, but rather Big Planet itself. Showboat World – 1975, Pyramid Books 1975. 1st printing. Book shares the same setting as Big Planet, a backward, lawless, metal-poor world. The plot structure which involves a series of dramatic presentations, often with humorous consequences, has parallels with Vance's 1965 novel Space Opera.
Price: 9.99 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
End Time: 2025-01-07T23:29:13.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Place of Publication: United States
Signed: No
Publisher: Ace Books
Subject: Science Fiction
Year Printed: 1958
Unit Type: Unit
Language: English
Special Attributes: Vintage Paperback
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Author: Jack Vance
Topic: Science Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Unit Quantity: 1
