Brain of the Galaxy - Jack Vance

Brain of the Galaxy

By Jack Vance

  • Release Date: 2010-08-24
  • Genre: Science Fiction
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 11 Ratings

Description

Arthur Caversham of 22nd-century Boston finds himself naked at a dinner party. Bearwald the Halforn battles the Brands from Mount Medallion. Ceistan seeks a parchment in the dead city of Therlatch filled with treasure that is now worthless. Dobnor Daksat is competing with artists of the top order to create worlds with the imagicon, a device unknown to him. What is the connection of these disparate tales? Not even the Brain of the Galaxy understands their full ramifications.  First published in 1951, later reprinted as the The New Prime.

Reviews

  • Hard to find short story

    4
    By Passepartout
    This is well worth a look if you're a fan of Jack Vance. It's a very early piece of work, and so it's interesting to compare his style and sweep to what you see in later work. That said, it's definitely lesser Vance, and not as stunning as his debut "The World Thinker".