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edition of the Showboat World Author Jack Vance Country United
States Language English Genre Science fiction novel Publisher
Pyramid Books Publication date 1975 Media type Print (Paperback)
ISBN 0-515-03698-6 OCLC Number 2537750 Preceded by Big Planet
Showboat World (original title: The Magnificent Showboats of the
Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet), written in 1975, is
the second, stand-alone novel in a pair of science fiction
novels by Jack Vance (the first being Big Planet) that share the
same setting, a backward, lawless, metal-poor world called Big
Planet.  Plot summary[edit]  Showboat World follows the farcical
adventures of Apollon Zamp, owner of the showboat Miraldra's
Enchantment, and his troupe of acrobats, magicians and actors.
Zamp is invited by the King of Soyvanesse to travel up the river
Vissel to the distant city of Mornune, there to participate in a
contest. A ri