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Lurulu-Jack Vance novel, book review

Lurulu-Jack Vance novel Lurulu was the last novel Jack Vance published.   It was first published in 2004.   My out of print hardcover copy has 167 pages of text.   Lurulu is a continuation of the novel Ports of Call that was first published six years earlier.   Lurulu is a word from myths and legends that represents a mysterious search or yearning for something meaningful, a wistful longing for a real reason for living.   The first two chapters (17 pages) of the novel summarize what happened in the novel Ports of Call which ended suddenly in mid flight.   At the end of Ports of Call our main character, Myron Tany, was on the spaceship Glicca with three other crew members and some passengers and were on their way to the spaceport of Coro-coro on the planet Fluter.   The Glicca is a cargo ship that flies from planet to planet stopping at ports to pick up or deliver cargo and sometimes passengers.   At each port the crew and passengers have a new experience and encounter different cul