Trullion Alastor 2262 Author:Jack Vance "Trullion - World 2242 of the Alastor Cluster - was a beautiful waterworld, a world of fens, mists, idyllic islands scattered in an aquatic setting of surpassing beauty with its shaggy trees like bursts of great chrysanthemums, its natural growth of fruits, and all the richness the clear oceans provided for the easy taking. The Trill were a lack... more »adaisical, easy-living race - except for the planetwide game of hassade when a ferocious instinct for gambling drove them to risk all - home, friends, family, even life itself - on the teams that contested the water-checkerboard gaming fields."« less