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Vance Jack:     more books (102)

Lyonesse (Book 1) by Jack Vance, 1987-09-01 Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden Bk.1 (Fantasy Masterworks) by Jack Vance, 2002-03-14 The Demon Princes, Vol. 2: The Face * The Book of Dreams by Jack Vance, 1997-08-15 The Demon Princes, Vol. 1: The Star King * The Killing Machine * The Palace of Love (Demon Prince Series , Vol 1) by Jack Vance, 1997-04-15 Sjambak by Jack Vance, 2010-07-24 Planet of Adventure by Jack Vance, 1993-08-15 Showboat World by Jack Vance, 1989-08 Tales of the Dying Earth by Jack Vance, 2000-12-01 This is Me, Jack Vance! by Jack Vance, 2009-07-30 Lurulu (Ports of Call) by Jack Vance, 2007-02-06 The Dragon Masters by Jack Vance, 2010-12-31 Big Planet by Jack Vance, 2002-03-28 Araminta Station by Jack Vance, 1990-05 Faceless Man by Jack Vance, 1987-05-15

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1. Jack Vance - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen.  
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   Extractions: San Francisco, California Occupation Novelist ... Short story writer Nationality United States Genres Fantasy ... Science Fiction Influenced Gene Wolfe George R.R. Martin Gardner Dozois John Holbrook Vance (born August 28 in San Francisco California ) is generally described as an American fantasy and science fiction author . Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance . Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen . Other pen names include Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, Jay Kavanse. Among his awards are: Hugo Awards , in 1963 for The Dragon Masters and in 1967 for The Last Castle ; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle ; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1984 for life achievement and in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc ; an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage ; in 1992, he was Guest of Honor at the

2. Jack Vance
   Jack Vance Archive; Eric Walker, Jack Vance page at Great Science Fiction and Fantasy An extended essay on Vance s work, with copious quotation  
   http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/vance.html
   
   Extractions: Notebooks 21 Jan 2004 08:24 American author of science fiction fantasy and mysteries (the last as either John Holbrook Vance or various pseudonyms). For more than forty years now, Vance has been writing wonderful and remarkable prose, which I can best characterize as "elegantly contrived" - he fills it with unusual words and elaborate constructions and often enough a slightly ironic tone. It almost flaunts its studied, artificial, utterly uncolloquial character, but it always says exactly what he wants it to, and always says it better than any other construction could have. Irony notwithstanding, he can use it to evoke any emotion he pleases. No one else writes anything quite like it, though Quine has something of the same character of elegance and deliberate artificiality (who was it who said "All art is artifice"?), and some of his humorous passages recall Ernest Bramah Mike Berro , who is an aficionado of both, tells me that Vance, in correspondence, recalls reading Bramah at about the time he wrote The Dying Earth.

3. Jack Vance - Wikipedia
   Translate this page Jack Vance vero nome John Holbrook Vance (San Francisco, 28 agosto 1916) è uno scrittore statunitense, autore di romanzi fantasy e di fantascienza,  
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   Extractions: Vai a: Navigazione cerca Jack Vance al timone della nave, inizio anni '80 Jack Vance vero nome John Holbrook Vance San Francisco 28 agosto ) ¨ uno scrittore statunitense , autore di romanzi fantasy e di fantascienza , sebbene sia stato riportato che Vance stesso obietti a questa definizione Ha firmato gran parte delle sue opere con il suo nome informale Jack Vance , ma ha anche usato il suo nome completo, cos¬ come gli pseudonimi Ellery Queen (dal famoso scrittore di gialli), Alan Wade, Peter Held, e John van See. Gode di una buona considerazione da parte di critici e colleghi, alcuni dei quali hanno suggerito che trascende i limiti del genere e dovrebbe essere considerato un importante scrittore secondo gli standard della letteratura mainstream . Per esempio Poul Anderson l'ha definito in un'occasione il pi¹ grande scrittore americano "in" fantascienza (piuttosto che "di" fantascienza). Nasce il 28 agosto in California. Dopo la separazione dei genitori si traferisce con la madre e diversi fratelli nel

4. Jack Vance - Wikipédia
   Translate this page John Holbrook Vance, dit Jack Vance, né le 28 août 1916 à San Francisco, est un auteur américain de science-fiction, particulièrement dans le style fantasy.  
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   Extractions: Aller   : Navigation Rechercher Pour les articles homonymes , voir Vance Voir aussi sur Wikiquote les citations « Jack Vance » Jack Vance   bord de son bateau en 1980 John Holbrook Vance , dit Jack Vance , n© le 28 ao»t San Francisco , est un auteur am©ricain de science-fiction , particuli¨rement dans le style fantasy dans le magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories. En , la Science Fiction Writers of America lui accorde la distinction honorifique de Grand Ma®tre Edgar en , le Hugo en et , le Nebula en , le Jupiter en , l’ Achievement en , le GilgamXs en et le World Fantasy en . Il re§oit aussi, en Il a exerc© une influence consid©rable sur la science-fiction exotique et picaresque, ce dont t©moignent des livres comme Le Ch¢teau de Lord Valentin de Robert Silverberg Le ma®tre des ombres de Roger Zelazny Mytale d’ Ayerdhal ou Le Chant du Cosmos de Roland C. Wagner Un num©ro sp©cial de la revue Bifrost lui a ©t© consacr© en 2003.

5. Jack Vance - Wikipedia
   Translate this page Unter dem Namen Jack Vance wurde ein großer Teil seines Werkes im Rahmen der Science Fiction- und Fantasy-Literatur veröffentlicht.  
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   Extractions: Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Jack Vance, Anfang der 80er Jahre. John Holbrook Vance 28. August in San Francisco Kalifornien ) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Unter dem Namen Jack Vance wurde ein groŸer Teil seines Werkes im Rahmen der Science Fiction - und Fantasy -Literatur ver¶ffentlicht. Er verwendete die Pseudonyme Peter Held, Alan Wade und John van See. Ferner schrieb er drei Kriminalromane unter dem Namen Ellery Queen Seine Kindheit verbrachte er auf einer Farm im San Joaquin Valley . Er studierte an der University of California erst Bergbau und Physik, schlieŸlich Journalismus. W¤hrend des Zweiten Weltkrieges stand er in Diensten der amerikanischen Handelsmarine und ¼bte nach dem Krieg eine ganze Anzahl von Hilfsarbeiter- und Aushilfsjobs aus, bis er sich entschied, Schriftsteller zu werden. Mit seinen Freunden und Kollegen Frank Herbert und Poul Anderson bewohnte er einst ein Hausboot. Er lebt heute mit seiner Familie in

6. Jack Vance@Everything2.com
   Jack Vance is one of the grand masters of science fiction, a multiple Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner, and a writer with the highest sort of  
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7. Jack Vance - SCIFIPEDIA
   Jack Vance (b.John Holbrook Vance on August 28, 1916 in San Francisco, California) wrote his first story during WWII while serving in the merchant marine.  
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   Extractions: <span class="SFPTagline"> From SCIFIPEDIA </span> Jack Vance (b. John Holbrook Vance on August 28 in San Francisco California ) wrote his first story during WWII while serving in the merchant marine. He continued to publish stories in the pulps during the late , and published his first novel, The Dying Earth , in The Dying Earth is a landmark novel . It can be categorized as science fiction The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga , both of which feature Cugel, a minor wizard of weak morals. Note that Michael Shea also wrote an authorized sequel to The Eyes of the Overworld that features Cugel, A Quest for Simbilis Vance often creates such far-future worlds that evoke a fantasy look and feel. He won his first Hugo Award for one such, The Dragon Masters , a tale of war and chivalry that involves genetically engineered dragons A prolific author, Vance also specialized in planetary romances that feature wide-open worlds filled with aliens and alien humans that have fractured into strange cultures and habits.

8. Internet Book List :: Author Information: Jack Vance
   Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science  
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   Extractions: Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Last Castle. He lives in Oakland, California. Paired Works: Omnibus Volumes: Collections: Anthologies: Novels: Big Planet (1952) Vandals of the Void (1953) To Live Forever (1956) Languages of Pao, the (1957)

9. Jack Vance
   Jack Vance Order, Bestellung. We plan to progressively publish all currently outof-print Jack Vance titles. These are English language books,  
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10. Jack Vance - Wikiquote
    John Holbrook Vance (b. August 28, 1916) is an awardwinning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series.  
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    Extractions: Jump to: navigation search John Holbrook Vance (b. August 28, 1916) is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author, who wrote the four-book Dying Earth series. Quotes and text from the Dying Earth novels Quotes and text from the Lyonesse Trilogy ... 'Humanity is old, civilization is new: the mesh of cogs is by no means smooth and this is as it should be. Never should a man enter a building of glass or metal, or a spaceship, or a submarine, without a small shock of astonishment; never should he avoid an act of passion without a small sense of effort. We of the Institute receive an intensive historical inculcation; we know the men of the past, and we have projected dozens of possible future variations, which, without exception, are repulsive. Man, as he exists now, with all his faults and vices, a thousand gloriously irrational compromises between two thousand sterile absolutes is optimal. Or so it seems to us who are men.' "Xaviar Skolcamp, Over-Centennial Fellow of the Institute" in

11. Pelgrane Press Forum - Jack Vance
    Jack Vance New Topic New Topic. Show all topics, Show all open topics, Show topics from last day, Show topics from last 2 days, Show topics from last 5  
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12. EReader.com: Author: Jack Vance
    Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering, physics and journalism at the University of California. During World War II he served in the  
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    Extractions: Browse by category... Romance Science Fiction Fantasy Under Five Dollars Best of 2005 New Year's Resolutions Special Offers Recently Reduced Staff Picks Action/Adventure Anthologies Biography/Memoir Careers Children's Books Classics Contemporary Fiction Entertainment Historical Fiction History Horror Humor Law Literature Magazines New Age Nonfiction Poetry Reference Religion Self-Help Star Trek Books Study Guides Teen Travel True Crime Western Sign Up Today! 10% Off eBooks Plus - Special offers and coupons delivered straight to your inbox! Your e-mail address: Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering, physics and journalism at the University of California. During World War II he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid-1940s; his first book, The Dying Earth

13. Welcome To The Jack Vance Archive
    Bibliographies of vance s works and translations to various languages, scanned book covers, information about the author and the fanzine The vance Phile.  
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14. Jack Vance Info Page
    Latest news regarding the life and works of jack vance.  
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15. Lord Of Language, Emperor Of Dreams: A Profile Of Jack Vance - Infinity Plus Non
    With the comprehensive vance Integral Edition in preparation, Nick Gevers offers a retrospective consideration of the author s remarkable career.  
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    Extractions: by Nick Gevers With the Vance Integral Edition (VIE - for full details see the foot of this page), a complete library of the superb works of Jack Vance, now in the process of being compiled, a retrospective consideration of Vance's remarkable career may be useful. This is one reader's view, a necessarily brief and summary glimpse of one of modern literature's great panoramas of the fantastic. AN OVERVIEW Fifty years have passed since the publication of Jack Vance's first book, The Dying Earth . Then and in the decades since, Vance, a peripatetic, outgoing, jazz-loving Californian, has regaled and enriched SF and Fantasy with, among many other wonders, the following: The Dying Earth, an Earth of two billion years hence, where a moribund red sun wanly illuminates the baroque savagery of feuding wizards, guileful monsters, and glib tricksters; Big Planet, where countless communities of often murderous eccentrics live in scattered profusion, rich in perverse villainy; Pao, whose innumerable fatalistic peasants are being remade through re-engineering of the very language they speak;

16. Jack Vance
    A bibliography of jack vance s books, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability.  
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    Extractions: Fantastic Fiction Authors V Jack Vance Preferences google_ad_client = "pub-4149752303753296";google_alternate_ad_url = "http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/frames/banner.htm";google_ad_width = 468;google_ad_height = 60;google_ad_format = "468x60_as";google_ad_type = "text_image";google_ad_channel ="5061332721";google_color_border = "6699CC";google_color_bg = "003366";google_color_link = "FFFFFF";google_color_url = "AECCEB";google_color_text = "AECCEB"; Home Awards New Books Coming Soon ... Years Browse Authors A H O V ... U (John Holbrook Vance) Search Authors Search Books About Jack Vance The author was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to sf and fantasy magazines. His first novel, 'The Dying Earth', was published in 1950 to great acclaim. Since then he has won both of sf's most coveted trophies, the Hugo and Nebula awards; he has also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel 'The Man in the Cage'. He lives in California in a house he designed. New and Forthcoming Hardbacks The Kragen The Jack Vance Reader Series Dying Earth The Dying Earth The Eyes of the Overworld Cugel's Saga Morreion ... The Tales of the Dying Earth (omnibus) Big Planet Big Planet Showboat World Demon Princes The Star King The Killing Machine The Palace of Love The Face ... The Demon Princes : Volume 1 (omnibus) The Demon Princes: Volume 2 (omnibus) Tschai, Planet of Adventure

17. Vanceintegral.com
    jack vance, though largely unknown, is one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is the author of over 60 books. § The vance Integral Edition  
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18. Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Jack Vance
    The speculativefiction work of jack vance evaluated as literature.  
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    Extractions: a critical list with discussions This is a brief discussion of Jack Vance and, of course, of some books by Jack Vance (My apologies for the length of this page: Jack Vance is impossible to describe briefly; more to the point, he wants many illustrative quotations, and even then we glance off the exact stroke of the essencean observation that is an "in" jest.) When one looks at Vance's oeuvre, the numbers alone become daunting. Vance has been writing books for over half a century and, just in our fields, already has outhe is the only of my five-star authors still producingwell over two score novels and about a dozen and a half (depending on how one counts) collections of short stories. With such an output, not every single work is going to be a masterpiece, but an amazing many are, and most of the rest are very good; I reckon there are not over two or at most three clunkers (virtually all very early work) in the lot.

19. Science Fiction Weekly Interview
    ew can deny the impact jack vance has had on the fields of science fiction and fantasy. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, vance is a  
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    Extractions: The cast and crew of ... Clockstoppers By Kathie Huddleston ew can deny the impact Jack Vance has had on the fields of science fiction and fantasy. According to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction , Vance is "a landscape artist, a gardener of worlds" with "a genius of place." That genius has led him to write incredible tales about amazing worlds for over 50 years. Born as John Holbrook Vance in 1916, Vance held down a variety of jobs before he published his first story, "The World Thinker," in 1945 in TWS . As the author of over 60 novels, Vance is credited with helping to define the genres of science fantasy and the planetary romance. Significant series include The Dying Earth Big Planet Gaean Reach and Lyonesse . He is presently working on a sequel to his recent novel

20. Jack Vance :La Page Française
    Translate this page jack Vancela page française, Bibliographie compléte,Critiques,Biographie,Derniéres nouvelles, Photos,Utopia 98,Astronomie,Gastronomie,Pulps Covers,Dessins  
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