Wyst: Alastor 1716-Jack Vance novel, book review
Wyst: Alastor 1716-Jack Vance novel AKA: Alastor Book 3 Wyst: Alastor 1716 was first published as a paperback novel in 1978. It is the third and final novel in the Alastor series. Each book in this series is a stand alone novel connected only by their shared setting in the Alastor Cluster. My out of print paperback has 218 pages of text with 5 pages more of a glossary at the end. 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 called the Whelm to keep the peace, especially focusing on space pirates called starmenters. Wyst is one of the planets in the Alastor Cluster. It is also known as Alastor 1716. Most of the novel takes place on Wyst in the Arrabus Nation. Unci...