Jack Vance - Big Planet - 4
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:30 am
Big Planet
SPOILER WARNING . . .
As far as I can tell, this is the book that spawned the "trek across a land which is lined with an unending array of unique cultures that don't know anything beyond their neighbors, a land which is so huge you'd never get to the end" subgenre (paving the way for books like Ringworld, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, etc.), a subgenre that I gather is sometimes referred to as “planetary romance.â€
SPOILER WARNING . . .
As far as I can tell, this is the book that spawned the "trek across a land which is lined with an unending array of unique cultures that don't know anything beyond their neighbors, a land which is so huge you'd never get to the end" subgenre (paving the way for books like Ringworld, To Your Scattered Bodies Go, etc.), a subgenre that I gather is sometimes referred to as “planetary romance.â€