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Emphyrio is a science fiction adventure novel written by Jack Vance. It tells the story of a young man who overturns the foundations of his world.

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Il linguaggio di Pao, edito anche come I linguaggi di Pao, è un romanzo di fantascienza del 1957 di Jack Vance. È uno dei suoi primi romanzi; non è considerato uno dei suoi migliori e in effetti presenta ancora una certa approssimazione nella trama e nel delineare i caratteri dei personaggi, tuttavia già presenta in …

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L'odissea di Glystra, edito in italiano anche coi titoli Il grande pianeta e Glystra, è un romanzo di fantascienza del 1952 dello scrittore statunitense Jack Vance. Assieme al successivo romanzo Il mondo degli Showboat fa parte del ciclo del Grande Pianeta.

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Star King is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the first in his Demon Princes series. It tells the story of a young man, Kirth Gersen, who sets out to track down and revenge himself upon the first of the Demon Princes, the five arch-criminals who massacred or enslaved nearly all the inhabitants of …

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The Face is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the fourth novel in the "Demon Princes" series. This book was published nearly twelve years after the third.

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The Dragon Masters is a science fiction novella by American author Jack Vance. It was first published in Galaxy magazine, August 1962, and in 1963 in book form, as half of Ace Double F-185. It won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1963. The story describes a human society living under pre-industrial conditions …

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The Gray Prince is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in two parts in Amazing Science Fiction magazine with the title The Domains of Koryphon. Given that the novel's setting, the planet Koryphon, is integral to the plot, The Gray Prince may be said to belong to the science fiction subgenre of the …

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The Killing Machine is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, the second in his "Demon Princes" series, in which Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in …

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Ecce and Old Earth is a 1991 science fiction novel by Jack Vance, the middle novel in the Cadwal Chronicles trilogy, set in Vance's Gaean Reach. It follows Araminta Station and precedes Throy.