JACK VANCE

ARAMINTA STATION

BOOK ONE of the Cadwal Chronicles

Cover art by Bob Eggleton

TOR SF - 1st mass-market printing: April, 1989

CONDITION:  VERY GOOD thick paperback book; appears almost unread; some shelfwear at edges and corners; no markings; a few pages have a crease or two.

On the planet Cadwal, Glawen Clattuc becomes involved in a war between two sharply divided societies, the inbred human scientific research station at Araminta, and the alien Yips of Lutween Atoll.

Commentaries on line:

One of my favorite books which I try and read every couple of years.

Whenever I want to find something exciting to read in the world of science fiction, I always turn to Jack Vance, the master. You will always get strange worlds with stranger people in it, and all of these people have different motivations for doing things.

Araminta Station is a 554 page novel by Jack Vance that was first published in 1987. It is much longer than most of his novels and is a later works written when he was at the peak of his talents. It is also the first novel of three that comprise the Cadwal Chronicles. This the second time I've carefully read this novel and have found it to be the best of the three in the series and one of Vance's finest. It is fascinating, intriguing and one of Vance's better novels. I look forward to reading again in a year or two. 

Classic SF and classic Vance style, witty and funny.

Oh man this is an outrageous book…  this novel will be one of those that seems weirdly ahead of/out of time when read by our distant descendants.

One of my favorite SF books. I reread it every so often. Adventure, mystery, and romance - in a completely realized future culture that is both familiar and strange - classic Vance!

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