Loved itI give The Garments of Karn eight out of 10. It's a stellar splendor.
The garments of Caean (1976)
Others: Mostly positive Peder is not just a tailor, but a sartorial--a lowly trade that has now been elevated to an incredibly high standard. Sartorials compete fiercely in creating new apparel, and Peder has heard that the greatest of them all are in the Caeanic worlds, where clothing is a way of life and a philosophy of living. In Peder's sector, though, Caeanic clothing is prohibited, and he has fallen in with a band of pirates attempting to salvage a Caeanic freighter. In splitting the loot--clothes--Peder cleverly spots a legendary suit, one of five in the entire galaxy, and walks off with it. And no sooner does he put it on than his personality changes; he becomes self-assured, clever, successful--it almost seems as though the suit of clothes is wearing him! A whimsical tale of a suit of clothes that really makes the man.
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- 9780006148623
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- 206 pages
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NeutralI don't really remember that much about it sort of has the feel of a best novel or maybe this it's a pretty decent Space Opera about an alien suit an outfit that gives its wearer certain abilities
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