Last Castle

Name: Last Castle
Rating: 4.00 (2 reviews)

by Jack Vance

2 ratings • 1 review • 2 shelved

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Last Castle

by Jack Vance

2 ratings • 1 review • 2 shelved

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ISBN10 0441470734
ISBN13 9780441470730
Publish Date 1 March 1982 (first published 1 December 1980)
Publish Status Out of Stock
Publish Country US
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Ace Books

Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
Language English

Reviews

While this has all the usual trappings of a Vance story - declining society, strange environment, weird creatures - it's unusual in leaning more toward the macho he-man resolution of its time than toward Vance's usual sardonic onlooker.

Award winner or not, I wouldn't put it in the same category as [b:The Languages of Pao|40889|The Languages of Pao|Jack Vance|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1169512189s/40889.jpg|1877052] or [b:The Magnificent Showboats Of The Lower Vissel River Lune Xxiii South, Big Planet|6467260|The Magnificent Showboats Of The Lower Vissel River Lune Xxiii South, Big Planet|Jack Vance|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nocover/60x80.png|6657766].

A good introduction to Vance, and a fun story for fans.

CVIE vol IV