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JACK VANCE




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Copyright ┬й 1976 by Jack Vance;
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MASKE: THAERY



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The eastern*fringe of the Gaean Reach is bounded by a remarkable pocket of emptiness: the Great Hole.
The region is virtually untraveled: spacemen find no inducement to enter, while beyond hangs Zangwill
Reef, a flowing band of stars with a baleful reputation. The Great Hole, therefore, is a lonely place.

At the very center of the Great Hole hangs the star Mora. Two of its attendant worlds, Maske and Skay,
constitute that celestial oddity, a double planet; in tandem Maske and Skay orbit Mora, swinging around
each other in ponderous epicycles.

Both Skay and Maske are inhabited. No one knows how many waves of human migration have crossed