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Maske: Thaery Taschenbuch – 1. Februar 2018

Englisch Ausgabe von Jack Vance (Autor), Dave Langford (Vorwort)
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Wandering the provinces of Thaery, footloose Jubal Droad of Glentlin is carelessly injured during an encounter with the arrogant Ramus Ymph, scion of a powerful ruling family. Jubal begins a quest for personal justice, from a position of disadvantage.

Striking his first blow, Jubal narrowly escapes gruesome retaliation at the hands of Scales and Balance, formidable operatives of the Faithful Retribution Company—assigned to his case by the vindictive Ymph!

Applying for employment under Nai the Hever, Jubal negotiates with energy and conviction, but can only win a low-wage position with Department Three of the Sanitation and Hygiene Office. Reconciling gloomily to the prospect of inspecting kitchen drains, Jubal is surprised that his training places such emphasis on martial skills. Department Three is something different than it seems.

Tracking Ramus Ymph off-world to quirky, densely-touristed Eiselbar, Jubal connects the pieces of Ymph’s astounding ambition. Returning to Maske, he follows Ymph across the Long Ocean to Wellas—where he precipitates events which will preserve Thaery and Wellas from exploitation, and resolve his own conflict, through the peculiar agencies of the tree-worshipping Waels.

Along the way, Jubal softens the heart of icily-remote Mieltrude, daughter of Nai the Hever.

Maske: Thaery is Volume 51 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series.Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collectionis based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoyup-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributedby a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of theauthor's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These uniquefeatures will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work forthe first time. – John Vance II

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  1. Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe
    206 Seiten
  2. Sprache
    Englisch
  3. Erscheinungstermin
    1. Februar 2018
  4. Abmessungen
    15.24 x 1.32 x 22.86 cm
  5. ISBN-10
    1619471280
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1619471283
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  • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Spatterlight Press; 1. Edition (1. Februar 2018)
  • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
  • Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 206 Seiten
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1619471280
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1619471283
  • Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.32 x 22.86 cm
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Enrico Assorati
3,0 von 5 Sternen Ordinary
Rezension aus Italien vom 26. Februar 2024
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Not the best Jack Vance. I feel it as a sort of forced work, in the style of the best novels, but feels like written as a duty, not a joy.
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Michael O'Driscoll
5,0 von 5 Sternen If you want the distilled essence of Jack Vance -this is it!
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This is is Jack Vance at his best-fun,inventive with soaring imagination and wicked,wicked humour.
If you read it and don't fall in love with the joy of words and humour-you have no soul.
If you are a writeryourself- read it and despair!
Unlike Ozymandias-these words will live for ever!
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angelo baldasso
5,0 von 5 Sternen Uma boa leitura
Rezension aus Brasilien vom 29. Mai 2017
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Uma obra com todas as características que consagraram Jack Cancelar, agilidade e inventividade na narrativa minuciosa na construção de uma sociedade. Ji
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Ken Korczak
5,0 von 5 Sternen Blissfull to read: The brilliant Jack Vance at his best
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Jack Vance was a special kind of writer – a literary genius.

Because he wrote primarily in the science fiction field, he was pegged (and often dismissed) as a “genre writer.” But a more accurate term would be: “genre artist.”

Many don’t know he also achieved enormous success in the murder-mystery, crime novel genre, having won the top award in that field, the Edgar. He wrote three books under the Ellery Queen pseudonym, and a host of other crime novels under other names. His shocking novel “Bad Ronald” was made into highly rated TV movie in the 1970s.

The New York Times Magazine described Vance as, "one of American literature's most distinctive and undervalued voices.”

Writer Michael Chabon said of Vance:

"Jack Vance is the most painful case of all the writers I love who I feel don't get the credit they deserve. If The Last Castle or The Dragon Masters had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation, but because he's Jack Vance and published in Amazing Whatever, there's this insurmountable barrier … It's not Twain-Hemingway; it's more Poe's tradition, a blend of European refinement with brawling, two-fisted frontier spirit."

ABOUT THIS BOOK:

In this book, Maske: Thaery, many of those elements that make Vance's cult fans love him the most are present:

• The setting is a far-off planet with a mild climate, bucolic and scenic countryside, vast swelling oceans and mysterious continents populated by strange flora and fauna.

• The time is uncounted thousands of years in the future, but human beings have an uneasy relationship with advanced technology. The result is a society that seems fundamentally of European Middle Ages design, but mixed with many of the technological gimmicks of the 20th Century, and some advanced space technology.

• Vance’s peculiar obsession with making his characters constantly haggle, bargain and bicker over small or large amounts of money.

• The luxury space yacht. This is one of the most endearing Jack Vance creations – think of today’s luxury RV motorhome – except this is one that can flit between the stars, traveling in comfort from planet to planet.

• The lonely hero: A decent, intelligent handsome man of low or middling birth, but who views himself as something special, or as rightfully belonging among more a more elite caste of society – who is yet humble and despises those who make pretensions.

• Long sailing voyages across achingly lovely oceans features gorgeous sunsets and exotic moonlight.

• Country inns where a person can rest, eat a wonderful meal of spiced stew, fresh salad, and crusty home-baked bread, accompanied by a delicious selection of wines.

• An extremely beautiful, but aloof, haughty and disdainful heroine.

• A society structured along the lines of a vivid caste system.

The lowly-born hero in this case is Jubal Droad – although it’s not his caste that is low, so much as the remote corner of the world to which he belongs, a section of the continent called Glentlin, “a barren unproductive land of small population.”

There is a definite resemblance to that of 13th or 14th Century Scotland vis-à-vis that of England. For example, a “high born” Scot from a wealthy family may nevertheless fin himself near the bottom of the pecking order among elite English, aristocratic society.

The plot of this book revolves around the attempt of Jubal Droad, a “lowly Glint,” who is determined to make something important of himself in the world, and his burning desire to be taken seriously as a man of “high birth and status” among the Thariots, who dominate the world culture of the planet Maske.

Jubal travels to the major city of Thaery, Wysrod, where he quickly embroils himself in the highest levels of government and society intrigue – mostly by agreeing to take a dangerous mission as a spy.

The result is a marvelous adventure that takes Jubal off planet to other worlds, as well as across the oceans of his home planet, Maske. His life is frequently in danger, the elites of society do everything they can to keep their thumb down on a person they view as “ low-caste” -- all the while, Jubal confronts everything from mystical mysteries of magic to the crass, materialistic commercialism of greedy capitalists.

Reading Maske: Thaery gives one a feeling that is equivalent to the joy of a glorious summer day, combined with the shimmering magical feeling of Tolkien's Middle Earth, along with the thrill of working through the twists and turns of an international spy thriller.

It’s a brilliant book -- yet at the same time, definitely accessible to readers of just about all levels, from young adult to those who like to chew on great works of literature. This book is both great literature and easy to read at the same time -- thanks to the unique talent of the amazing Jack Vance.
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Banfield
5,0 von 5 Sternen Jubal Droad is one of my favorite Vance characters
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 17. Januar 2020
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I consider Jack Vance to be the finest speculative fiction writer of the 20th Century. This book is up to his usual high standard, and it is one of my Vance favorites. It might be correct to call Jack Vance a Speculative Sociologist and he, once again, displays his deft touch here.
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