Series
Demon Princes
Jack Vance & Matthew Hughes · 6 novels · 1964–2021
Demon Princes is a series of five science fiction novels by Jack Vance, which cumulatively relate the story of Kirth Gersen, a man trained by his grandfather to exact revenge on five notorious interstellar crime bosses, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who attacked his village, killing some and carrying the survivors off into slavery when he was a child. Each novel deals with his pursuit of one of the five Princes.
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The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(3 editions)
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Demon Princes at the centre, 1 subseries around it, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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- 1960s3
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s0
- 2000s0
- 2010s0
- 2020s1
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Bright and intense: 83% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book6 of 6 works carry a tone
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- The Facedarkest
- Barbarians of the Beyondbrightest · calmest
- The Star Kingmost intense