Big Planet/Showboat World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Jack Vance
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—interplanetary romance
- Time of Work: The late twenty-sixth century
- Setting: Various locations on Big Planet
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Love or romance, Escapes, Future, Other worlds, Espionage or spies, Entertaining or entertainers, Boats or boating, Throne restoration, Oracles, Brain
- Locales: Fictional planets
The Plot
Location is everything in these two novels. Big Planet is enormous, and all of Earth’s splinter cultures seem to have migrated there, each convinced that its way of life is the only true way. There is no central government. Murder, torture, and intolerance are rife, and Earth is unable to exercise any real control over the planet. The magazine story of Big Planet was cut drastically and edited egregiously in its first book publication, one of the few instances in which a book became shorter than the original magazine story. The full original text was not...
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