# The Star King

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- Book: [The Star King](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-vance/the-star-king) ([The Star King.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-vance/the-star-king.md))
- Authors: [Jack Vance](https://www.bookquiver.com/jack-vance)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-965-0
- Published: 2012-10-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonists parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the " demon princes". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one by one. In the process Vance does what he excels at: creating strange worlds, environments, customs, and adaptations that humans have made to live in these conditions.