Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!clyde!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uokvax!andree From: andree@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: another request for title/author - (nf) Message-ID: <3617@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Nov-83 00:24:13 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.3617 Posted: Wed Nov 9 00:24:13 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Nov-83 03:37:19 EST Lines: 40 #R:umcp-cs:-331800:uokvax:5400004:000:1573 uokvax!andree Oct 30 17:25:00 1983 /***** uokvax:net.sf-lovers / umcp-cs!rene / 2:05 pm Oct 24, 1983 */ Does anyone know about a book about some guy who wakes up in some kind of work camp, without his memory. The doctors piece together where he comes from from his odd reactions to certain things like eating in public (on his planet people ate together only with screens over the lower half of the face - eating was about as socially acceptable as excretion) and an exhileration in the dark (which, on his planet, was the only time sexual activity was acceptable - men would put on masks and go 'rape' a willing woman, if she chose him). When he returned, it turned out that he had been put away because of some 'magic formula' made by natives, and there was something about sibling rivalry and inheritance, I think. It's been a long while, so I hope I've got what details I remember right. Thanks, - rene -- Arpa: rene.umcp-cs@CSNet-relay Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!rene /* ---------- */ You win - I happen to be reading this at home, so I walked two feet, and picked up the book you want: Title: Marune: Alastor 933 Author: Jack Vance Publisher: DAW (paperback version) This is apparently one of a series of books by Vance dealing with the Alastor cluster - a LARGE globular cluster under the same government. The other two I have are Wyst (# 1716) and Trullion (# 2262). All three are at least very good. Pointers to others in the series would be appreciated.