Author: Jack Vance
Published 1966
Ace Books
Plot Summary – Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, he journeys across wastelands home to Almery. With a cult group on a pilgrimage, he crosses the Silver Desert, and meets more danger and betrayal as he betrays others.
Quick Thoughts:
- The End (of the reading list) is nigh, suggest something
- Bastards
- Evil wizard stuff
- Demon stick, no demon carrot
- Achievements
- Botched somatic components
- ambiguous rape
- antique language
- Inevitable Tolkien comparison
“Excellent; all is well. The ‘everlasting tedium’ exactly countervenes the ‘immediate onset of death’ and I am left only with the ‘canker’ which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.”
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