The Blue World
Author: Jack Vance
Year written: 1963(?)
Author’s age at the time: 47
Year published: May 1966
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Dutch title: Blauwe wereld
French title: Un monde d’azur
Genre: novel, SF
Based on and expanded from the short story “The Kragen”. This is the only Vance novel that is an expansion of a short story. [ref]
Republished by Spatterlight, 2012, The Blue World.