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The Star King

The Demon Princes Series, Book 1

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The Star King

By: Jack Vance
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter - and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge. Now Gersen roams the galaxy, bringing vengeance to the Demon Princes one by one, in Jack Vance's classic series of hardboiled space opera.

In a seedy tavern on Smade's Planet, Kirth Gersen picks up the trail of Attel Malagate, a member of an alien species called Star Kings, who masquerade as humans. Malagate maintains anonymity behind a screen of sinister henchmen, but Gersen will combine subtle guile and stark violence in a strategy to bring him face to face with the first of the Demon Princes.

© 1963 and 2005 Jack Vance (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc. Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Royalty Revenge Interstellar
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why choose such an awful narrative for one of the best Sci fi stories ever written?
gutted. was so looking forward to this. it has started to grow however!!

a masterpiece .

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I’m biased. Jack Vance is my favourite author, though Steven Ericson is close, Star King is the first of five books in the Demon Prince’s series. It was written when computers were still being developed, but doesn’t suffer and avoids being quaint. Great story and narration.

Classic sci-fi

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