Trullion: Alastor 2262

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Trullion: Alastor 2262

First edition
Author	Jack Vance
Illustrator	Gene Szafram
Language	English
Series	Gaean Reach
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Ballantine
Publication date	1973
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback), mass-market paperback
Pages	247
ISBN	0-345-03308-6
OCLC	1624819
Followed by	Marune: Alastor 933

Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973) is a science fiction novel by American writer Jack Vance, first published by Ballantine Books. It is one of three books set in the Alastor Cluster, "a whorl of thirty thousand live stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter."^[1]Three thousand star systems are inhabited by five trillion humans, who are governed by the mostly hands-off Connatic. Occasionally, in the manner of Harun al-Rashid of The Thousand and One Nights, the Connatic travels in disguise among the people.

Trullion: Alastor 2262 first appeared in serialized format in the March and June 1973 issues of Amazing Science Fiction magazine. It was issued in paperback book format in June 1973 by Ballantine Books.