The Alastor Trilogy consists of three novels by American writer

Jack Vance John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. He also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen. Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Ach ...

: '' Trullion: Alastor 2262'' (1973), '' Marune: Alastor 933'' (1975), and '' Wyst: Alastor 1716'' (1978). Vance planned a fourth novel ''Pharism: Alastor 458'', but it was never written. A fourth authorised novel by

Tais Teng Tais Teng (born 1952 in The Hague) is one pen name of Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen, a Dutch writer of fantasy fiction, hardboiled detective, children's books, and science fiction. Teng also works as an illustrator, sculptor, and writing coac ...

, ''Phaedra: Alastor 824'', was published under the "Paladins of Vance" label by Spatterlight Press in 2019. The series takes place in the Alastor Cluster as part of Vance's larger

Gaean Reach The Gaean Reach is a fictional region in space that is a setting for science fiction stories written by Jack Vance. Those of his works that are set in a universe evidently including the Gaean Reach, whether within it or near it, have been catalogue ...

fictional universe. As described in the novel ''Marune'', three thousand of the star systems in the cluster are inhabited by five trillion humans. Vance describes them as having "little in common except their lack of uniformity." They are ruled by the

laissez-faire ''Laissez-faire'' ( , from , ) is a type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism (such as subsidies or regulations). As a system of thought, ''laissez-faire'' ...

Connatic Oman Ursht, "the sixteenth of the Idite dynasty". The Connatic's palace, Lusz, on the planet Numenes, rises "ten thousand feet above the sea on five great pylons", and contains chambers dedicated to each inhabited planet.

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* 1970s science fiction novels 1970s fantasy novels Book series introduced in 1973 Novels by Jack Vance Novels set on fictional planets {{fantasy-stub Science fiction book series