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This is Me, Jack Vance!

by Jack Vance
This is Me, Jack Vance! by Jack Vance
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This is Me, Jack Vance! (or, More Properly, This is ”I”).

Hugo Award for Best Related Book 2010.

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Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth, the Lyonesse trilogy, the adventures of Cugel the Clever, the Demon Princes series, and many other masterful tales set among the stars, in exotic fantasy realms or on our own Earth.

For much of his career, Vance has also been one of the field’s most private writers, an author who preferred to let his work speak for him. Now, at last, to coincide with the release of the tribute anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, Jack gives us this intimate and fascinating glimpse into his rich and eventful life, including an extensive photo section, and a valuable insight into how he went about practicing his craft.

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Release date: August 31, 2009

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Jack Vance

Jack Vance

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (1916–2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.

Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers.

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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)

More books by Jack Vance

Grand Crusades (The Early Jack Vance #5)
Unrated
Minding the Stars (The Early Jack Vance #4)
Unrated
Magic Highways (The Early Jack Vance #3)
Unrated
Dream Castles (The Early Jack Vance #2)
Unrated
The Complete Lyonesse (Lyonesse)
★ 10.00 / 2
Hard-Luck Diggings (The Early Jack Vance #1)
Unrated
Wild Thyme, Green Magic
Unrated
The Kragen
★ 6.00 / 1
The Jack Vance Reader
Unrated
The Jack Vance Treasury
★ 10.00 / 1
The Laughing Magician: The Adventures of Cugel (Dying Earth)
★ 6.00 / 2
The Moon Moth and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition #17)
Unrated
The Demon Princes (Demon Princes)
Unrated
Wild Thyme and Violets: Other Unpublished Works and Addenda (Vance Integral Edition #44)
Unrated
Gadget Stories (Vance Integral Edition #3)
Unrated
Son of the Tree and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition #5)
Unrated
The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition #8)
Unrated
The World-Thinker and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition #2)
Unrated
Lurulu (Ports of Call #2)
★ 7.50 / 2
Golden Girl and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition #6)
Unrated
Coup de Grace and Other Stories (Vance Integral Edition)
Unrated
Tales of the Dying Earth (Dying Earth)
★ 9.50 / 4
Ports of Call (Ports of Call #1)
★ 8.00 / 1
The Demon Princes: Volume 1 (Demon Princes)
Unrated
The Demon Princes: Volume 2 (Demon Princes)
Unrated
Night Lamp (Gaean Reach)
Unrated
Alastor (Alastor)
Unrated
When the Five Moons Rise
Unrated
Throy (The Cadwal Chronicles #3)
Unrated
Ecce and Old Earth (The Cadwal Chronicles #2)
Unrated
Chateau D'If: And other Stories
Unrated
Durdane (Durdane)
★ 8.00 / 1
Madouc (Lyonesse #3)
★ 9.34 / 3
Araminta Station (The Cadwal Chronicles #1)
Unrated
The Dark Side of the Moon
Unrated
The Augmented Agent and Other Stories
★ 2.00 / 1
The Green Pearl (Lyonesse #2)
★ 9.34 / 3
The Complete Magnus Ridolph (Magnus Ridolph)
Unrated
Light from a Lone Star
Unrated
Rhialto the Marvellous (Dying Earth #4)
★ 8.00 / 2
Cugel's Saga (Dying Earth #3)
★ 10.00 / 2
Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse #1)
★ 8.42 / 7
The Narrow Land
Unrated
Lost Moons
★ 8.00 / 1
The Book of Dreams (Demon Princes #5)
★ 8.00 / 1
Galactic Effectuator
Unrated
Nopalgarth
Unrated
The Bagful of Dreams (Dying Earth)
★ 10.00 / 1
Green Magic
★ 8.00 / 1
The Face (Demon Princes #4)
★ 8.00 / 1


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