THE KRAGEN. Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, [2007]. Octavo, cloth. Limited edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Vance. The submissive People of the Floats, a socialistic community of eleventh-generation descendants of convicts who hijacked a ship taking them to a penal planet, threatened by an intelligent sea beast to whom they pay homage and tribute and an emerging caste system, is preserved by a rebel who "kills the beast and sets technology afoot for potential reunion with main body of humankind. Epic adventure in futuro-exotic setting. Effective presentation of ecology and resulting lifestyle from 'criminal' beginnings" (Anatomy of Wonder [1987] 3-378). Vance's "talent for extracting exotic flavors from commonplace terms has seldom been better used." - James Cawthorn. An expansion of "The Kragen," FANTASTIC, July 1964. 1966 Nebula nominee. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#176214).
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