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Based on the Gaean Reach series by Jack Vance. Produced and distributed by agreement with Jack Vance c/o Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd.

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Gazetteer 4 N 38 The Gaean Reach, A 5 O 41 A Miscellanea 63 B 9 P 42 Currencies 63 C 13 Q 44 Spaceships 64 D 16 R 45 Space-Yachts 64 E 20 S 47 Liners and Bigger Ships 65 F 22 T 53 General Technology 67 G 24 U 58 Surveillance Devices 67 H 27 V 58 Materials and Medical 67 I 27 W 59 Computing 69 J 28 X 60 Vehicles 70 K 28 Y 61 Weapons 71 L 30 Z 61 Guns 71 M 33 Miscellaneous 72

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3 GAZETTEER

For your edification and delight I have toiled unceasingly. Only a person of the highest calibre could have hardened his heart as I have and unblushingly allowed so many deadlines to drift past. Deadlines, editors,Sample pah! Nailing filethem upside down to a church door is too good for suchlike. But still, I have laboured. I have worn out a mouse (plus two sommeliers and a wandering flagellant); I have peered at maps, faded and stained by the passing of the decades; I have squinted under strange lights and discoursed with people whose skin has been tanned by fiercer suns. And I have made a pile of all I have found. Some may call me capricious. Indeed the word whimsical has even been used. Beware of any who use such words; they tend to sip small beer from small glasses and pay poorly, pushing thin piles of scrip across the table, when a true aficionado would shower you with hard currency, suitcases full of it, used notes, non-sequential, in refreshingly large denominations. There, I have spoken. Read on, but at your peril, lest you glimpse a universe so rich that mere reality seems bland and inconsequential. — Jarim Oebs, Associate Interlocutor of Galaxeology [de-tenured], Dagglesby University, Cicely

4 Achernar to Algenib IX

Abbreviations

AS = Araminta Station, New English Library, 1989 MT = Maske: Thaery, Fontana, 1978 BD = The Book of Dreams, Coronet Books, 1982 NL = Night Lamp, Voyager, 1996 EOE = Ecce and Old Earth, New English Library, 1991 PL = The Palace of Love, Coronet Books, 1980 F = The Face, Coronet Books, 1981 PoC = Ports of Call, Voyager, 1999 GE = Galactic Effectuator, Coronet Books, 1983 SK = The Star King, Mayflower, 1973 GP = The Gray Prince, Coronet Books, 1976 T = Throy, New English Library, 1993 KM = The Killing Machine, Coronet Books, 1980 TA= Trullion Alastor 2262, Grafton, 1987 L = Lurulu, Voyager, 2006 WA = Wyst: Alastor 1716, Coronet Books, 1980 MA= Marune: Alastor 933, DAW Books, 1975

ACHERNAR KM 112 | PoC 91 the Gaean Reach a sparkling haze to the side. This world is the home of the Achernar It is ruled by the Connatic from his palace on Central School of Forensic Linguistics. the world Numenes, and order is maintained by the Whelm, his space navy. ADAR MOUNTAINS BD 19 Still, it has to be said that the Whelm is On the world of Copus, these mountains are not maintained purely to provide steady GAZETTEER a source of Mersilin rugs. careers for the deserving younger sons of minor landowners. Starmenters are far more AGAVE T 141 of a problem in Alastor Cluster than they are I have been reliably informed that “the elsewhere in Gaean space. Save perhaps for Bestiary is under the ruins of Agave”; what the Primarchic, and it is from the Primarchic the Bestiary is, or where Agave is, these are that a proportion of the Alastor Cluster matters on which I, for one, can shine no light starmenters seem to come. whatsoever. ALCYDON PoC 167 | L 198 AGLABAT SampleKM 113 fileTo visit the modestly renown Pan-Arts On the planet of Thamber, in Misk, it was Museum (one of the few things this world is originally a fishing village; it is now a city known for), land at the Duvray spaceport. behind a wall of dark brown stone. For relaxation afterwards, the editorial staff recommends Coiry Beach. AIRY GULCH BD 94 A huge gulch deep in the Skak Range on ALCYONE BD 48 Boniface. This world is the home of the Pallas Technical Institute, which is still (in spite of rumours to ALASTOR CLUSTER GE 78 | MA 7 the contrary) located at Pallas. Even in distant parts of the Gaean Reach, Alastor Cluster is known as the home of the ALGENIB IX BD 48 starmenters. In reality it is far more civilised Known only as the world of origin of A. that that. It is a node of thirty thousand live Gieselman, a murder victim, who at the stars plus unnumbered dead ones on the inner time dwelt at Long Parade, in the town of rim of the galaxy. It has the Unfortunate Espandencia. Waste before, the Nonestic Gulf beyond, and