Araminta Station-Jack Vance novel, book review
Araminta Station-Jack Vance novel AKA: Cadwal Chronicles Book 1 Araminta Station is a 554 page novel by Jack Vance that was first published in 1987 by Underwood Miller. It is much longer than most of his novels and is a later work written when he was at the peak of his talents. It is also the first novel of three that comprise the Cadwal Chronicles. This the second time I've carefully read this novel and have found it to be the best of the three in the series and one of Vance's finest. It is fascinating and intriguing novel, a masterpiece and one of Vance's greatest works. Araminta Station was nominated in 1988 and 1989 for the Locus award for the Best Science Fiction Novel. The setting is the distant future, mostly on the planet Cadwal. Old Earth continues to exist and can be readily visited. Cadwal is a planet in the Gaean Reach that was discovered by the Naturalist Society of Earth 900 years previously. Now it is managed b...