Ecce and Old Earth-Jack Vance novel, book review
Ecce and Old Earth-Jack Vance novel AKA: Cadwal Chronicles Book 2 Ecce and Old Earth is a later work by Jack Vance and was first published in 1991 and is the second of three novels that comprise The Cadwal Chronicles. My copy is 326 pages long making it one of Vance's longer works, although shorter than the first novel in the series, the 554 page Araminta Station. This is my second reading of this work and I liked it even better after reading it again. It is not as dazzling a novel as the first in the series, Araminta Station, but it is better written and more interesting than Throy the third novel in The Cadwal Chronicles. It is a worthy follow up to Araminta Station. The story line in Ecce and Old Earth takes a different direction after Araminta Station. It moves from a focus on a murder investigation to that of rescuing Glawen Clattuc's father and of searching for the lost Charter of the Naturalist Society. The original Charter allows t...