（外文电子版资料）Last Castle, The by Jack Vance.docVIP

Kingsley Amis is one of the more astute critics of science fiction and recently, while speaking about the mainstream writer Anthony Burgess and his occasional forays into SF, Amis said . . . hes a stylist and thats rare in this field. Quite true. But we do have lack Vance and his haunting, mood-pos-sessed visions of the distant future, written in a style that stirs the reader to reaction and response. Here, in this award winning story, he once more spins his seductive magic. Nebula Award, Best Novella 1966 Jack Vance THE LAST CASTLE Toward the end of a stormy summer afternoon, with the sun f