- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: I Books; First Printing edition (Dec 9 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0743479696
- ISBN-13: 978-0743479691
- Product Dimensions: 19.5 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,176,748 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- "Excellent ... a fast-paced adventure.... Vance is a splendid storyteller!"
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Set on a planet with five very different societies - three human and two alien, this novel sees Schaine Madduc return to this planet, Koryphon, after five years in space. But much has changed in the interim, and Schaine finds her home and family under threat from the Uldras, led by the Grey Prince.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
I tore through this book,
By Bruce Lovetower (Tokeville, WA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The Gray Prince (Paperback)
Vance delivers his straight-faced wit and fully conceived worlds almost to perfection with The Gray Prince. In the far future, newcomer land barons and longtime inhabitant nomads clash on the planet Koryphon. But this is only the backdrop. The characters are completely believable and well thought-out. They each have their own interests and motivations. Who are the good guys? Vance leaves that up to you. Refreshingly, he does not preach. He just writes a great story.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vance tells a tale of alien succession fascinatingly.,
By A Customer
Ce commentaire est de: Gray Prince (Paperback)
A returnee to the planet Koryphon discovers changes and mysteries in the behavior of his old friends. The displaced former masters of Koryphon are subservient to human immigrants, who are trying to agree upon a formal relationship with them. Typically humanity cannot agree, and the differences between advocates degenerates to opposition and conflict. The urban factions promote their solution based upon abstractions formed through social fashion and educated consensus. Those who deal most with the native population are faced with the threat of externally imposed order and loss of their way of life. Told in Vance's typically elaborate manner the story shows how the most convoluted human and alien relationship must be understood internally, by the participants, to reach a working relationship. The tale hinges on enlightened self interest of the characters as they all pursue individual goals; not at all transparently. An exemplary Vance title, with all his sense of! ! wonder and roundabout manner of getting to the real point of the story. Well worth a read!!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Racist Filth,
By A Customer
Ce commentaire est de: The Gray Prince (Paperback)
The Gray Prince is a horribly racist novel. The author uses a thinly veiled setting of science fiction and aliens to tackle and justify racism in America. I despised this novel and the horrible message it departs. Landbarons are white while everyone else is described as colored, i.e, gray, red, brown.... There is the assignment of the Uldra's as native American's and the SEE movement as the abolitionist of the early 18th and 19th century. The landbarons are obviously parallel to the White Europeans, most likely Brits, who came over to America. The Barons, just as their English counterparts they are based on, set up grand manors that are worked by field hands, the colored folk. The Landbarons attempt to justify their dominance and say that life is better now that they are in charge. The Uldras are never allowed to come in their homes or eat at their tables. Most insulting is the way the book ends. The Uldra's having helped rescue the white heroes are then awarded the right to sit at in the Great Hall...however the "good" Uldra knows his place and says that you have your thing and I don't need to be there. I implore any of you who want to stop this spread of subtle racism to NOT buy this book. I also encourage you all to get the book from the library and read it. Let me know if I'm wrong. I doubt it though.
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