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Space Opera

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Space Opera

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Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press, 2012
Pyramid Books, 1965
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Light/Humorous SF
Space Exploration
Space Opera
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Synopsis

A society matron underwrites the interstellar tour of an Earth opera company, performing Beethoven, Mozart and Rossini for bewildered human and alien audiences on a kaleidoscopic range of planets. But intrigue and secret agendas complicate what was already a doubtful enterprise, and the matron's feckless nephew finds that the simple country girl he plans to marry is far more mysterious than she seems.

This is Jack Vance at his funniest, rolling out a rollicking picaresque tale where the belly laughs play a perfect duet with the grandmaster's sly observations on the absurdities of life, love and librettos.


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Space Opera

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  (10/21/2015)

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