Light from a Lone Star
Nesfa Press.
This is a collection of stories and articles by and about the Guest of Honor at the 1985 North American Science Fiction Convention (NASFiC), called Lone Star Con, in Austin. "Cat Island" is a previously unpublished excerpt from a novella. "A Vance Encyclopedia" is a selection of descriptions of people, places, and customs from Vance's universes; it is the first publication in this form.
Contents:
- Introduction (Russell Letson)
- The Men Return
- Hard-Luck Diggings
- First Star I See Tonight
- The Potters of Firsk
- Noise
- Cat Island (previously unpublished)
- A Talk with Jack Vance (Tim Underwood)
- A Vance Encyclopedia (non-fiction)
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.