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Marune: Alastor 933

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the main character of this story, Padero, finds himself stranded on a backward planet. His memory stolen by an unknown enemy for an unknown reason...

Who is he ? A fugitive, a criminal or a victim ?

For better or for worse, Padero has only two things to live for... the first is to regain his memory and the second to seek revenge !

This, and the other Alastor novels - Wyst & Trullion - are without any doubt his finest work !

The hero was banished from his castle and plant. without his memory he battles his foes for his castle and memories. Another great book by Jack Vance

jack vances instalment about marune depicts a very strange culture, where the process of eating ist compared to the process of defecating and therefore done only in toiletlike compartments and alone. also musick is to be despised since it is uncontrolled emotionality. You need to have your emotions in check in the culture of the rhunes. this also applies to sexual practices, which indeed are exercised sweating and grunting, like swine and therefore must be banned. to propagate the race it is necessary to wait for absolute night when none of the suns or moons of marune is visible in the heavens. this period af absolute darkness is called "Mirk" and this is the time when the male rhune dons a bodyconcealing mask, that leaves only the gender uncovered and sneaks und lurks in secret passages to catch any female unawares. yet the rhunes posess other qualities, they are constrained courteous, distant and edeucated in their cogences, fields of sience or craft in which they excel.

vance is forever looking for aristocratic lifeforms with or without poultroonery, buffoonery and comes in this book and in others to the sad conclusion, that true aristocracy does not exist.