Jack Vance

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Among his awards for particular works were: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc. He also won an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage.

A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices." He died at his home in Oakland, California, May 26, 2013, aged 96.

Selected works

Early novels:

Big Planet (written in 1948)
The Rapparee (1949)
Gold and Iron (1952)
The Houses of Iszm (1953, a novella)
Clarges (1955)
The Languages of Pao (1956)
The Miracle Workers (1957, a novella)
The Dragon Masters (1961, a novella)
The Blue World (1963, novella version The Kragen)
Space Opera (1964)
The Last Castle (1965, a novella)
Emphyrio (1967)

Dying Earth:

Dying Earth (1944)
Cugel the Clever (1963) & Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight (1973–81)
Rhialto the Marvelous (1970–79)

Demon Princes:

1. The Star King (1960)
2. The Killing Machine (1964)
3. The Palace of Love (1965)
4. The Face (1978)
5. The Book of Dreams (1981)

Alastor:

Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
Marune: Alastor 993 (1975)
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)

Lyonesse:

1. Suldrun's Garden (1982)
2. The Green Pearl (1984)
3. Madouc (1989)

Cadwal Chronicles:

1. Araminta Station (1986)
2. Ecce and Old Earth (1990)
3. Throy (1992)

Other novels:

Tschai (1967–69, 1979)
Durdane (1970–71)
The Domains of Koryphon (1972)
The Galactic Effactuator (1973–74)
The Magnificent Showboats (1974)
Maske: Thaery (1975)
Night Lamp (1995)
Ports of Call (1997, 2004)