Showboat World

About “Showboat World”

Showboat World is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, published in 1975. It is the second in a pair of stand-alone novels set on Big Planet, a lawless and metal-poor world. The story features a series of dramatic presentations that lead to humorous outcomes. The novel shares a similar plot structure with Vance's earlier 1965 work Space Opera. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)