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The blue world

by Jack Vance

On a water world populated by the descendants of a space crash, colonists coexist with giant, predatory marine beasts. When one man decides to rebel against the dominant King Kragen, he must convince his community to help him defeat the creature without weapons.

Accession 8877 ISBN 0583124976 Publisher Mayflower
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