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Summary: Great journey. The weak ending matters little.
Review: After reading "Araminta Station", you can guess what this one will be about: the rescue of Scharde Clattuc (on Ecce) and the search for the original Charter (beginning on Old Earth). The "Old Earth" bit occupies most of the book. It's a fine hunt, with who knows how many people following who knows how many scents to the Charter; the momentum builds slowly but surely; and we get a classic Vance travelog on the way; but I am bound to say that the very end of it all - the actual discovery of the Charter - is disappointing. Were it not for the stumble at the end I would prefer this even to "Araminta Station".
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Summary: disappointing
Review: one of my favorite writers. not an awful book, but miles from his best.plot centers around a lost document (whoever finds it owns the world) and trying to find it. whoever possesses it owns an entire world. science fiction only to the extent in the future there are no photocopy machines, no directories, and real property law makes no sense.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: one of my favorite writers. not an awful book, but miles from his best. plot centers around a lost document (whoever finds it owns the world) and trying to find it. whoever possesses it owns an entire world. science fiction only to the extent in the future there are no photocopy machines, no directories, and real property law makes no sense.
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Summary: An enjoyable read
Review: Vance writes in a very eloquent almost poetic style. His characters are nicely developed and interesting - although he tends to drop them rather abruptly. The plot was quite simple in this one, as our heroes wander through space searching for some lost documents.
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