Trullion: Alastor 2262-Jack Vance novel, book review
Trullion: Alastor 2262-Jack Vance novel AKA: Alastor Book 1 Trullion: Alastor 2262 was first published in March of 1973 in digest form in Amazing Science Fiction magazine. It was released as a 247 page paperback novel later the same year. It is currently in print in a high quality trade paperback by Spatterlight Press. In 1974 Trullion: Alastor 2262 was nominated for and placed sixth for the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The Alastor Cluster consists of thirty thousand live stars and three thousand inhabited planets with a human population of about five trillion. All of the people share a common language and are ruled by the Connatic who lives on the planet Numenes. The Connatic uses his wits and a powerful military like police force to keep the peace, especially focusing on space pirates called starmenters. Trullion is also known as Chamber 2262 and is the lone planet of a small white star. It has one narrow continent called ...