Asutra, The-Jack Vance novel, book review
Asutra, The-Jack Vance novel AKA: Durdane Book 3 The Asutra was first published in digest form in The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy in May and June of 1973. It was released as a 204 page paperback novel by Dell in 1975. It is currently available in an excellent trade paperback edition from Spatterlight Press. The Durdane Series is not the very best series Vance wrote but Vance fans should find it well worth reading, especially if is read carefully and multiple times. This is the third volume of the Durdane Chronicles and it builds upon the first two novels. The two initial books in the series (The Anome and The Brave Free Men) should be read one after the other because they are really one novel in two books. The story line continues in The Asutra so it is best read after reading the other two, but I read it the first time as a stand-alone novel, and it made sense by itself because the beginning of The Asutra briefly summarizes the previous two...