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The Gray Prince
''The Gray Prince'' is a science fiction novel by Jack Vance, first published in two parts in ''Amazing Science Fiction''〔Formerly ''Amazing Stories'', the magazine changed its name to ''Amazing Science Fiction'' in 1972, two years before the publication of ''The Domains of Koryphon'', as part of an effort to distance itself from its pulp image of the 1920s-1950s.〕 magazine (August and October 1974 issues) with the title ''The Domains of Koryphon''. Given that the novel's setting, the planet Koryphon, is integral to the plot, ''The Gray Prince'' may be said to belong to the science fiction subgenre of the planetary romance. Also significant in this regard is the work's original title, ''The Domains of Koryphon'', which gives prominence to the setting of the conflict narrated in the novel rather than to one of its many characters.
== ''The Gray Prince'' as xenological fiction ==
The setting of Koryphon allows Vance to create multiple conflicting xenologies. The planet is home to two alien species, one of which, the morphotes, is indigenous, while the other, the seemingly beast-like erjins, proves to be exogenous and to have possessed in the past a material and technical culture complex enough to allow space travel. The cultures of Koryphon's four human societies are described in greater detail, however: the inhabitants of Szintarre, one of the planet's continents, are urban and sophisticated; the so-called Land Barons of the Alouan, part of the larger continent of Uaia, are a self-sufficient landed aristocracy; and the Uldras of the Alouan and the Wind Runners of the adjacent Palga plateau are nomadic barbarian tribes, which, unlike the other two secular and technically advanced societies, practise religious beliefs that are suggestive of shamanism and voodoo, and which also involve the use of fetishes. The magic of the Uldras and the Wind Runners is presented as real rather than merely superstition, however, in that it has a real effect upon those against whom it is employed. In this respect, Vance suggests the existence of a phenomenology that has been lost by or is inaccessible to the characters in the novel who are from secular, technical societies.
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