Finished Reading 2024: Star King by Jack Vance 📚

Just finished Star King, first in Jack Vance’s Five Demon Princes novels. Another short read. World-building was interesting. The novel is less than 200 pages so there’s not THAT much you can do with detailing some of the interesting aspects. Apparently this is also the first novel set in his Gaean Reach space opera setting. Throughout the novel he drops in excerpts from fictional texts to teach you a bit about it, which is a cool method. I may occasionally work in the next 4 books when I have time for a short one. The writing style is very weird. Not horrible, but strange, and I wonder if it is intentional, to convey something about the future setting.