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Ports of Call Copertina flessibile – 8 luglio 2017
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Myron Tany captains a space yacht owned by his flamboyant great-aunt on an interstellar hunt for a clinic rumored to restore youth.
A disagreement with Dame Hester leaves Myron stranded on a distant planet, and he signs on as crew aboard the tramp freighter Glicca. With Captain Maloof, Chief Steward Wingo, and Engineer Fay Schwatzendale, Myron travels the exotic worlds of the Gaean Reach.
Jack Vance shapes a picaresque tale of adventure, romance, humor, and youth’s eternal yearning to see the wonders that lie beyond the horizon.
– Matthew Hughes
Ports of Call is Volume 59 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series, and the first half of the Ports of Call / Lurulu sequence. Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collection is based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoy up-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributed by a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of the author's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These unique features will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work for the first time.
– John Vance II
- Lunghezza stampa268 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- Data di pubblicazione8 luglio 2017
- Dimensioni15.24 x 1.7 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101619471264
- ISBN-13978-1619471269
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- Editore : Spatterlight Press (8 luglio 2017)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina flessibile : 268 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 1619471264
- ISBN-13 : 978-1619471269
- Peso articolo : 395 g
- Dimensioni : 15.24 x 1.7 x 22.86 cm
- Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 21.715 in Fantascienza (Libri)
- n. 471.289 in Libri in inglese
- n. 487.026 in Letteratura e narrativa (Libri)
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The problem is that Ports of Call is really the first half of a novel which is completed in Lurulu. Ports of Call is available in Kindle Format--Lurulu is not. This is quite frustrating. I don't understand decisions of this nature, but then again I've never been accused of being a businessman.
Ports of Call is by no means his best but, hey, it's Jack Vance and it demands to be read.
Ports of Call is a travelogue, somewhat in the mode of Big Planet (but broader) or Space Opera (but less farcical). In brief, a young man is forced to make his way as a member of a spaceship crew, visiting all manner of planets. As always, the worlds are strange, the customs bizarre, the decisions whimsical.
The book has a broader range of well-developed characters than usual. Where Vance often relies on a fairly 'normal' narrator and weird, barely human companions or foils, here the crew of the spaceship are interesting and reasonable individuals in their own right.
Some of the decoration is familiar. For example, Vance expands slightly on one of his favorite risks - that innocent actions can lead to unexpected - and undesired - marriage. (Since he seems to have been quite happy with his own lifelong marriage, it's best not to read into this anything but humor.) But the total is nonetheless very entertaining.
So far, so good, and one of Vance's better books. Unfortunately, whether through editorial pressure, bad planning, or some other cause, the book stops at what one might feel is about the 2/3 or 3/4 mark. There's a quick epilogue (strange in a book so obviously designed for a sequel) that pretends to set up the sequel, but basically the book simply ends mid-stream. Given that the sequel, Lurulu , is so slim, it's hard to escape the conviction that it was all intended to be published as a single volume. Had that happened, I'd have been very pleased. But this book, as it stands, is incomplete and unsatisfying.
Overall, the main portion of an excellent Vance work. If I end up buying all his work electronically (Spatterlight Press), I'll consider simply merging Ports of Call and Lurulu into the one volume I feel they're meant to be.
I do recommend this, provided you buy Lurulu at the same time. The two together make a good story.
CVIE VI



