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Alastor (Engels: Alastor) is een sciencefictiontrilogie uit 1990 van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jack Vance. De drie boeken werden gebundeld uitgegeven in de M=SF reeks. Het boek speelt zich af in de Alastorzwerm: een klein sterrenstelsel met 3000 bewoonde planeten dat doorgaans niet tot de Gaeaanse Zwerm wordt gerekend. Wel wordt er, evenals in de Zwerm, de ozol (het equivalent van 1 uur ongeschoolde arbeid) gebruikt als munteenheid. Hoewel elke planeet redelijk autonoom is, bestaat er een centrale overheid op de planeet Numenes. Staatshoofd is de Connatic en de militaire ordedienst heet de Whelm.
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| dbo:abstract | The Alastor Cluster is the fictional setting of three of American writer Jack Vance's novels: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978), each named after a world in the cluster. Vance planned a fourth novel Pharism: Alastor 458, but it was never written. A globular star cluster Vance describes as "a whorl of thirty thousand live stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter," the Alastor Cluster is part of Vance's larger Gaean Reach fictional universe. Three thousand of the star systems in the cluster are inhabited by five trillion humans. Vance describes them as having "little in common except their lack of uniformity." They are ruled by the mostly hands-off, laissez-faire Connatic, Oman Ursht, "the sixteenth of the Idite dynasty". His motto is "when in doubt, do nothing." The Connatic's palace, Lusz, on the planet Numenes, rises "ten thousand feet above the sea on five great pylons", and contains chambers dedicated to each inhabited planet. His military force, the Whelm, is so-called for its use of overwhelming military force to accomplish victory. In the manner of Harun al-Rashid of The Thousand and One Nights, he goes among his people in disguise: often acting under a pseudonym in the guise of an official of his own government. His character acts as a deus ex machina, linking the series of novels together. A fourth authorised novel by Tais Teng, Phaedra: Alastor 824, was published under the "Paladins of Vance" label by Spatterlight Press in 2019. (en) L'Ammasso di Alastor è un immaginario ammasso stellare globulare dove lo scrittore statunitense Jack Vance ha ambientato tre dei suoi planetary romance: Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933 e Wyst: Alastor 1716, ognuno intitolato con il nome di un mondo dell'Ammasso. Vance aveva programmato un quarto romanzo Pharism: Alastor 458, ma non lo ha mai scritto. L'Ammasso di Alastor è parte del Gaean Reach, la grande regione dello spazio immaginata da Vance. Vance lo descrive come: Tremila sistemi solari nell'Ammasso sono abitati da cinque trilioni di esseri umani aventi "ben poco in comune, tranne la mancanza di uniformità". (it) Alastor (Engels: Alastor) is een sciencefictiontrilogie uit 1990 van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jack Vance. De drie boeken werden gebundeld uitgegeven in de M=SF reeks. Het boek speelt zich af in de Alastorzwerm: een klein sterrenstelsel met 3000 bewoonde planeten dat doorgaans niet tot de Gaeaanse Zwerm wordt gerekend. Wel wordt er, evenals in de Zwerm, de ozol (het equivalent van 1 uur ongeschoolde arbeid) gebruikt als munteenheid. Hoewel elke planeet redelijk autonoom is, bestaat er een centrale overheid op de planeet Numenes. Staatshoofd is de Connatic en de militaire ordedienst heet de Whelm. (nl) |
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| rdfs:comment | Alastor (Engels: Alastor) is een sciencefictiontrilogie uit 1990 van de Amerikaanse schrijver Jack Vance. De drie boeken werden gebundeld uitgegeven in de M=SF reeks. Het boek speelt zich af in de Alastorzwerm: een klein sterrenstelsel met 3000 bewoonde planeten dat doorgaans niet tot de Gaeaanse Zwerm wordt gerekend. Wel wordt er, evenals in de Zwerm, de ozol (het equivalent van 1 uur ongeschoolde arbeid) gebruikt als munteenheid. Hoewel elke planeet redelijk autonoom is, bestaat er een centrale overheid op de planeet Numenes. Staatshoofd is de Connatic en de militaire ordedienst heet de Whelm. (nl) The Alastor Cluster is the fictional setting of three of American writer Jack Vance's novels: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978), each named after a world in the cluster. Vance planned a fourth novel Pharism: Alastor 458, but it was never written. A globular star cluster Vance describes as "a whorl of thirty thousand live stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter," the Alastor Cluster is part of Vance's larger Gaean Reach fictional universe. (en) L'Ammasso di Alastor è un immaginario ammasso stellare globulare dove lo scrittore statunitense Jack Vance ha ambientato tre dei suoi planetary romance: Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933 e Wyst: Alastor 1716, ognuno intitolato con il nome di un mondo dell'Ammasso. Vance aveva programmato un quarto romanzo Pharism: Alastor 458, ma non lo ha mai scritto. L'Ammasso di Alastor è parte del Gaean Reach, la grande regione dello spazio immaginata da Vance. Vance lo descrive come: (it) |
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