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 . ...