 First edition | |
| Author | Jack Vance |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Darrell Sweet |
| Language | English |
| Series | Gaean Reach |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 169 |
| OCLC | 1502552 |
| Preceded by | Trullion: Alastor 2262 |
| Followed by | Wyst: Alastor 1716 |
Marune: Alastor 933 (1975) is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, the second of three books set in the Alastor Cluster, ‘a whorl of thirty thousand stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter’. Three thousand of the star systems are inhabited by five trillion humans, ruled by the mostly hands-off, laissez-faire Connatic, who occasionally, in the manner of Harun al-Rashid of The Thousand and One Nights, goes among his people in disguise. The novel was preceded by Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973) and followed by Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978).
Marune: Alastor 933 first appeared in serialized format in the July and September 1975 issues of Amazing Science Fiction magazine. It was issued in paperback book format in September 1975 by Ballantine Books.[1]
- ^ Underwood, Tim; Chuck Miller (1980). Jack Vance. New York: Taplinger Publishing Company. p. 228. ISBN 0-8008-4295-2.