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Four quintessential Vance adventures--(1968-75) City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume--now issued for the first time in a single volume and for the first time in hardcover. The splendid setting is Tschai, the single planet of a dim brown sun, where marooned Earthman Adam Reith encounters four brilliantly realized alien races (per the titles) and a teeming, often deadly flora and fauna in his efforts to survive and eventually return home. Exotic adventure, dastardly villains, beautiful women, baroque landscapes, all served up with the inimitable, incomparable Vance style and wit: dazzlingly inventive, utterly delightful, and absolutely, unequivocally essential to any collection or library (not to mention terrific value for the money). -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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"The "Planet of Adventure" tetralogy exemplifies Vance's mastery of the genre." --"Fantasy Review"
"Jack Vance is one of the finest writers that the science fiction field has ever known." --Poul Anderson, author of "The Boat of a Million Years"
"Jack Vance is one of the finest writers that the science fiction field has ever known." --Poul Anderson, author of "The Boat of a Million Years"
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Format:Taschenbuch
I read the four "Tschai" books for, I think, the sixth,seventh time in my life. Mr. Jack Vance writing is fluent, easy but detailed, and catches you full attention. Lush descriptions of the landscapes, perfect pictures of the characters make you "see" what you're reading. Even if I'm not a fantasy fan, but I prefer the classic science fiction, authors like Asimov, Sheckley, Simak, Clarke, Zelatny and so on, I just can't help to keep on reading the Tscahi saga. It should be really great if, one day, someone will make a movie on it.
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As a youth I enjoyed the stories of HP H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith tremendously in their ability of transporting the reader to strange worlds with colorful, prosaic descriptions. A freind recently turned me on to Vance's Planet of Adventure series and once again, in the great traditional style, he succeeds. However my greatest delight was in discovering what a crack-up his side characters are. For instance, in most of Vance's books there are Innkeepers who take great elaborate pains to extract money from travellers in some of the most clever negotiations I've ever read. At times pages are devoted to these Monty Pythonesque transactions! Does Vance hold a beef on Innkeepers or what? Great Books!
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Jack Vance is the master when it comes to the creation of vivid, baroque alien worlds, and in the Tschai series he gives us a grand tour. Reith is one of Vance's most likable protagonists, and (unlike some other still fine works) here Vance manages to keep the plot rolling and eventually gives us a satisfying ending.
The real treat, though, is the trip through Vance's exotic, mad, philosophical alien and human cultures, and the marvelous soundtrack of Vancean dialogue. Vance's imaginative power and polished prose is backed up genuine insight--for instance, the power structure on Tschai is complex enough to be plausible, and the equation is not strictly one of "scientific/military might = real power." Reith, in many ways the archetypal SF "man of action" is not without an introspective side, and admits "Logic doesn't always work," while remaining an eminently reasonable man.
It's very rare to get this much entertainment out of 500 pages. This is science fiction at its best, as all the 5 star reviews below attest.
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Not a movie?
Well i must agree with all the reviews i've read so far. But having read the book for the well eh is it 14th time? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Best book around
Well, I really loved this book, I got to read it a long time ago, my friend had the book, and I read it out within a week, Recently I found the book again and bought it, And right... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. März 2000 veröffentlicht
Highly original
I have read most of Mr. Vance's work over the past 15 years and I rate this at the very top, along with the Lyonesse series. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
THE best sci-fi novels I have ever read!
'Barlowe's Guide To Extraterrestrials' is what turned me onto to these books, and what a discovery they were, too! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juli 1999 von mattone@bhip.infi.net
It is a tribute to courage,ingenuity,compassion,tolerance
The following statement may seem a bit iconoclastic but this book is to me what the Bible and some other inspired texts are for other people. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
One of my favourites. Re-read 3 times.
Jack Vance is always very detailed and this book is no exception. I just wish that he had written a sequel as I always want the story to continue when I'm finished. Great book.
Am 5. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Exciting, addictive storyline written in a unique prose styl
After having read this series 4X over an 18 year period, I never fail to find it fascinating and charming. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. April 1999 veröffentlicht
Truly amazing
If you like SF and if you like Jack Vance, then it's probably no use that I'm talking to you here, because you will already own this book. If not: Why not???!!! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 10. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
How come I can only assign 5 stars when I need at least 25!!
I bought the book in the year it was published. Since then, I've been reading the book at least once a year and never stopped enjoying it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 14. November 1998 veröffentlicht
An epic sci-fi story
Jack Vance's Planet Of Adventure held me in its grip for the week or so it took me to read it. Who can forget the indomitable Adam Reith, who journeys and fights his way across... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. September 1998 von Aaron Woodin (purchagent@aol.com)
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