Big Planet-Jack Vance novel, book review
Big Planet-Jack Vance novel Big Planet is a 155/211 page, very early, planetary adventure, science fiction novel by Jack Vance that will probably appeal more to Vance fans than the general reader. It was written in 1947 and first published in the pulp magazine Startling Stories in September of 1952. It was reissued in book form by Avalon Books and in an Ace Double in 1957 and by Gollancz in1978. Fortunately Big Planet was also released 2017 in a Spatterlight Press quality trade paperback edition that is still in print. Big Planet is much larger than Earth and has been colonized by people and groups that left Earth, often to avoid persecution or prosecution. These diverse people, including many misfits and cultists, are not ruled by the government on Earth and are not at all united. All laws are highly localized and various groups, towns and tribes often are often in conflict or even at war with each other. There is no planetary government or leadership. There is also no metal on the...