Alastor Cluster

The Alastor Cluster is the fictional setting of three of American writer Jack Vance's novels: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978), each named after a world in the cluster. Vance planned a fourth novel Pharism: Alastor 458, but it was never written. A globular star cluster Vance describes as "a whorl of thirty thousand live stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter," the Alastor Cluster is part of Vance's larger Gaean Reach fictional universe.

Alastor Cluster

The Alastor Cluster is the fictional setting of three of American writer Jack Vance's novels: Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973), Marune: Alastor 933 (1975), and Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978), each named after a world in the cluster. Vance planned a fourth novel Pharism: Alastor 458, but it was never written. A globular star cluster Vance describes as "a whorl of thirty thousand live stars in an irregular volume twenty to thirty light-years in diameter," the Alastor Cluster is part of Vance's larger Gaean Reach fictional universe.