Emphyrio by Jack Vance
Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy, but the use of automation is punishable by death. When Amiante is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels and decides to bring down the system.-
The Dispossessed
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Flowers For Algernon
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
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A Scanner Darkly
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The Word for World is Forest
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The Lathe Of Heaven
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The Sirens Of Titan
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Hyperion
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Revelation Space
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Ubik
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Ringworld
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The Forever War
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The City And The Stars
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Roadside Picnic
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The Stars My Destination
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The Fall of Hyperion
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Rendezvous With Rama
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Worlds of Exile and Illusion
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The Book of the New Sun: Volume 1
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Star Maker
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Earth Abides
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Time Out Of Joint
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The War of the Worlds
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Valis
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Last And First Men
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
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The Difference Engine
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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
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The Time Machine
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Dune
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Minority Report
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Hard To Be A God
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Always Coming Home
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The Gods Themselves
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The Demolished Man
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The Fountains Of Paradise
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The Wind's Twelve Quarters and The Compass Rose
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The Female Man
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The THE INVISIBLE MAN
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A Fire Upon the Deep
Jack Vance (1916-2013)
John Holbrook Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining, engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857988857 |
| ISBN 10 | 185798885X |
| Title | Emphyrio |
| Author | Jack Vance |
| Series | Sf Masterworks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 1999-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |