In Old Earth's penultimate age, humanity's collective unconscious has long since been fully explored and mapped by the noönaut scholars of the Institute for Historical Inquiry. But something is threatening the integrity - perhaps even the very existence - of the noösphere, and aspiring academic Guth Bandar finds his career plans diverted by a collective unconscious that appears to be waking up.

The Compleat Guth Bandar brings together the full series of Bandar stories originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and later assembled into a "fix-up" novel: The Commons.

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"Matthew Hughes does Jack Vance better than anyone except Jack himself" - George R.R. Martin

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"Hughes's boldness is admirable"- New York Review of Science Fiction

"Hughes effortlessly renders fantastic worlds and beings believable"- Publishers Weekly

"A towering talent"- Robert J. Sawyer

"A treasure" - David Gerrold