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Emphyrio is a science fiction adventure novel by American writer Jack Vance. It tells the story of a young man who overturns the foundations of his world.
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- 1969
Emphyrio is Jack Vance’s foray into dystopian planetary romance. His usual plots feature amoral adventurers with a yearning for star-hopping, getting in and out of trouble in exotic locations and discovering quirky new cultures with colourful cuisine, monsters and religions.
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Jack Vance, in my opinion, was science-fiction's finest writer. In Emphyrio, Vance explores themes found in many of his other novels -- such as gullibility, social engineering, and enslavement. This is a wonderful story -- one of Vance's very best.
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14 nov 2011 · When Amiante, a wood-carver, is executed for processing old documents with a camera, his son Ghyl rebels, and decides to bring down the system. To do so, he must first interpret the story of...
Emphyrio: One of Vance’s more ideological pieces. Posted by Jesse Hudson ´s rating: 3.5 | Jack Vance | Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | 1 comment |. Emphyrio by Jack Vance. After establishing himself as a writer of short fiction, Jack Vance began to shift toward novels in the 1960s.
14 ott 1999 · Ghyl, assuming the name Emphyrio, forces the one lord entrusted with he truth each generation to reveal all, and forever after Emphyrio is honored as the freer of people. The novel turns on the belief that one individual armed with belief and persistence can upend an entire entrenched system.
Young Ghyl Tarvoke learns from his father that the world'sinjustices can be remedied, and the answer lies in the legend of Emphyrio. Whena cruel and arbitrary judgment shatters the foundations of...
