| 词条 | Ports of Call (Vance novel) |
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| name = Ports of Call | title_orig = | translator = | image = Ports of Call.jpg | caption = Dust-jacket illustration from the first mass-market hardcover edition | author = Jack Vance | illustrator = | cover_artist = Vladimir Nenov | country = United States | language = English | series = Gaean Reach | genre = Science fiction | publisher = Tom Doherty | release_date = April 1998 | media_type = Print (hardback & paperback) | pages = 294 | isbn = 0-312-85801-9 | dewey = 813/.54 21 | congress = PS3572.A424 P67 1998 | oclc = 37513050 | preceded_by = | followed_by = Lurulu }} Ports of Call is a science fiction adventure novel by American writer Jack Vance. Followed by the novel Lurulu, it tells the story of a young man named Myron Tany on a picaresque journey through the Gaean Reach. Plot summaryMyron's family intended for Myron to follow a staid and respectable career in economics; however, when his wealthy and eccentric great-aunt Dame Hester came into possession of a space yacht, Myron suddenly found his long suppressed dreams of adventure within reach. Serving as Dame Hester's nominal captain on her journey to find a clinic reputed to restore lost youth to wealthy clients, Myron soon finds that his aunt is capricious as she is flamboyant, and after an argument, finds himself castaway on a remote planet. With no resources to return home, he obtains the position of supercargo on a tramp freighter, which enables him to travel further across the Gaean Reach to exotic lands. ReceptionF&SF reviewer Elizabeth Hand praised Ports of Call as "delightful," declaring that "one enjoys Ports of Call as one does a Restoration comedy, for the sheer outrageous of its characters and the precision of Vance's often lunatic descriptive powers."[1]References1. ^{{cite web |last=Hand |first=Elizabeth |title=Books: Ports of Call |url=http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/1998/eh9808.htm|work=F&SF |date=August 1998 |accessdate=13 August 2011}} External links
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