Kragen, The-Jack Vance novella
Kragen, The- Jack Vance novella The Kragen by Jack Vance was first published in July, 1964 as a 62 page novella length work in the magazine Fantastic Stories of Imagination. Most of "The Kragen" was incorporated into Vance's novel "The Blue World" which was published in 1966 and was 192 pages long. In "The Kragen" the complex, interesting and highly structured society of the people who live on the Blue World is only hinted at. "The Kragen" is more of an adventure story while “ The Blue World ” involves world building and has much more psychological, sociological and anthropological material. (See my review under that title.) Each work deserves to be read alone. In both stories the residents live on small lily pad like islands on a planet that has no dry land and was settled over a hundred years ago by their ancestors. Both stories also feature a long lived squid like sea monster creature called King Kragen . A kragen is a ...