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The Blue World

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Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture.

Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they survived on the flora and fauna of the sea.

But they have always been at the mercy of the kragen - gigantic squid-like monsters that prey on their fish flocks, and on them.

The biggest of these is King Kragen, with whom the colonists can communicate, who has to be appeased.

But one man has had enough of a life of slavery and sacrifice.

But how can he convince his fellow men that King Kragen must be killed? And how can that be achieved in a world without weapons?

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Gollancz
0575073489 / 9780575073487
Paperback
813.54
20/03/2003
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
190 p.
22 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: New York: Ballantine, 1966.
'Jack Vance is one of the best writers producing sf and The Blue World is a showcase of his virtues' Speculative Bulletin 'An unusual, well-developed setting and situation' Analog 'His talent...has seldom been better used' New Worlds Jack Vance is universally recognized as one of the most important and trail-blazing writers of sf The Blue World is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified, static society and a man in conflict with it
'Jack Vance is one of the best writers producing sf and The Blue World is a showcase of his virtues' Speculative Bulletin 'An unusual, well-developed setting and situation' Analog 'His talent...has seldom been better used' New Worlds Jack Vance is universally recognized as one of the most important and trail-blazing writers of sf The Blue World is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified, static society and a man in conflict with it FL Science fiction