Title: great vance material, does lack any plot direction
Product review: As a big vance fan, I enjoyed this book a lot. It is almost like a scrapbook of various vance-designed worlds and cultures, paraded one after another as the protagonist travels from world to world. The book could be 10000 pages long and I wouldn't get tired of this, but as I said, I am a Vance fan.The big problem some readers might have with this book is the lack of any overall plot or conflict. I wonder how much of this is a function of Vance's desire not to write the first half of a story without any real guarantees he would be able to finish it (he is quite elderly). In the event, he has finished the sequel, Lurulu, which should be printed late 2004.
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