03/05/07
The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle -
Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy, high and low -
twv
@ 03:12:08 pm
I'm hemming and hawing: is this edition, featuring the Vance Integral Edition text (improved and supervised by the author), worth buying? After all, I've read the originals in their paperback editions from the '60s. The Last Castle, at any rate, struck me as worth several readings. I've so far read it twice, once when I was 20, and another time 20 years later.
These are science fiction, and non-sf readers would likely not enjoy The Dragon Masters, the novella that in this printing gets top billing. But the Nebula and Hugo winning The Last Castle may provide enough character, irony, and sheer anthropological strangeness to appeal to all who like quirky literature.
And Vance's prose style never faileth.
I assume the VIE text is an improvement. I just don't know how great an improvement.
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