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Trullion: Alastor 2262

Alastor #1 / 3
by Jack Vance
Trullion: Alastor 2262 (Alastor #1) by Jack Vance
  ★ 7.50 / 2
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Cover: Ned Dameron. Underwood-Miller, 1984.

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?

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Category: Science Fiction
Release date: 1973

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Jack Vance

Jack Vance

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (1916–2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.

Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers.

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Among his awards for particular works were: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc. He also won an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage.

A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices." He died at his home in Oakland, California, May 26, 2013, aged 96.

Selected works

Early novels:

Big Planet (written in 1948)
The Rapparee (1949)
Gold and Iron (1952)
The Houses of Iszm (1953, a novella)
Clarges (1955)
The Languages of Pao (1956)
The Miracle Workers (1957, a novella)
The Dragon Masters (1961, a novella)
The Blue World (1963, novella version The Kragen)
Space Opera (1964)
The Last Castle (1965, a novella)
Emphyrio (1967)

Dying Earth:

Dying Earth (1944)
Cugel the Clever (1963) & Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight (1973–81)
Rhialto the Marvelous (1970–79)

Demon Princes:

1. The Star King (1960)
2. The Killing Machine (1964)
3. The Palace of Love (1965)
4. The Face (1978)
5. The Book of Dreams (1981)

Alastor:

Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
Marune: Alastor 993 (1975)
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)

Lyonesse:

1. Suldrun's Garden (1982)
2. The Green Pearl (1984)
3. Madouc (1989)

Cadwal Chronicles:

1. Araminta Station (1986)
2. Ecce and Old Earth (1990)
3. Throy (1992)

Other novels:

Tschai (1967–69, 1979)
Durdane (1970–71)
The Domains of Koryphon (1972)
The Galactic Effactuator (1973–74)
The Magnificent Showboats (1974)
Maske: Thaery (1975)
Night Lamp (1995)
Ports of Call
(1997, 2004)

Alastor

Alastor consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

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Trullion: Alastor 2262 (Alastor #1)
  ★ 7.50 / 2
Marune: Alastor 993 (Alastor #2)
  ★ 8.00 / 1
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (Alastor #3)
  ★ 8.00 / 1
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