- American Fantasy fiction, Fiction, general
A group of aristocratic, decadent earth men and women try to survive a revolt on the part of the alien races enslaved by them.
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Classical in form, grave, cool and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Jack Vance
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 115
- Publisher
- Ace Books, Berkley, Underwood/Miller
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780441470723
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John Holbrook "Jack" Vance was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and one each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.
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