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Some scenes are striking: As always with Vance, science fiction is an excuse or a landscape to develop his stories. Vance in this tale deepens in his intuitions, which are the main theme of all his work: A mad scientist wants to take over the peaceful world of Pao, by killing the ruler and kidnapping the heir.
The core of the novel is an experiment to produce three different kind of tribes in Pao in order to disrupt its social structure, based on engineered languages is fanciful, nice, fantastic, baroque Pao is a largely agricultural backwater world, with a docile yet stubborn populace ruled by their Panarch. Upon this ruler's death, Beran, heir to the throne, finds himself immersed helplessly in a devious scheme to divide and conquer his world. A story of both overt and covert manipulation, this is a fine tale, rich with many common Vancian themes: It is doubtful if any other fantasy writer can lay claim to having fathered even a fraction of the wonderful myriad of worlds that Vance has created.
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This is yet another great example of his craft. See all 5 reviews. Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Customers who viewed this item also viewed. The Languages of Pao is one level a fairly standard sci-fi adventure - young prince robbed of his birthright by an usurper, and spirited away for safekeeping, where he learns the necessary skills to reclaim his throne. Vance in this tale deepens in his intuitions, which are the main theme of all his work: The film originally received an "X" certificate in the UK , meaning the picture could only be seen by adults. The Phantom from 10, Leagues It Conquered the World concerns an alien creature from the planet Venus that secretly wants to take control of the Earth. Nelson shoots the General and the two scientists, he completely misses the first scientist who dies nonetheless.
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I was around when Paul Blaisdell was building it, and he thought the camera would make it look bigger. I have some photographs of it in construction, probably the only ones in existence. I asked for my name not to be on that picture, so I was unbilled.
Surprisingly, it got good reviews. The film originally received an "X" certificate in the UK , meaning the picture could only be seen by adults. At issue, the scene of the creature being destroyed by a blowtorch was seen as animal cruelty.
However, producer Samuel Z. Arkoff convinced the film board that the violence was against a otherworldly person, and not an animal, earning the film its passing certificate. Time Out magazine, however, gave the film a negative review, criticizing its poor special effects. Critic Tony Rayns opined, "You have to see a movie like this to realise that film-makers who feel they have nothing to lose are rarer than you'd think". The Chicago Reader gave the film a generally positive review, saying, "Amazingly, this [sic] picture isn't half bad". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Peter Graves as Dr.
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