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The LANGUAGES of PAO by Jack Vance  Cover Illustration by Gray Morrow 

Ace Books, 1966. Paperback: 6½" x 4¼". Condition: Very Good plus: Small signs of wear. Cover Art: Gray Morrow (illustrator). 1966 Edition.  A stand-alone novel by Jack Vance. 1st printing of 1966 edition. Ace Books #F-390:- Synopsis: Divide and conquer - galactic scale. On the remote, bleak planet of Breakness, far from his own people, Beran, heir to the Panarch's throne on Pao, was brainwashed. Palafox, omnipotent Dominie of Breakness Institute, was the half-mad egoist responsible for the kidnapping and implantation of Breakness's totally alien thought-patterns into the mind of Beran. Palafox planned far ahead. Beran's future was to be shaped to serve the Dominie's ends; total universal conquest. But Beran, with the vestiges of Paonese, had his own ideas:- Review(s): "In 'The Languages Of Pao", Jack Vance is having a good time with a fascinating concept. The Planet Pao, a world of the very far future colonized from Earth, has a stagnant sort of culture, and one language. The scientists of the neighboring world of Breakness launch a ruthless experiment, jarring Pao into new virility by installing three class-languages, one for a warrior class, one for technicians, and one for rulers and bureaucrats. But they build into the formula certain weaknesses of their own degenerate culture. Beran Panasper, heir to the throne of Pao, has been spirited away to Breakness to save his life - and to enable the Breakness wizards to train a tool for the later subjugation of Pao. But Beran's Paonian characteristics blend with Breakness science in an unsuspected way. A very good yarn" - P Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science Fiction:- (original cost $0.40).

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