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Tales of the Dying Earth Best Price: $10.50 There's a wonderful strain of humor in the early American fantasy writers of which I was... | Planet of Adventure Best Price: $7.95 Jack Vance (1916) follows the best tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Barsoon series.
He... | Alastor Best Price: $7.76 Jack Vance is one of the all time great authors in any style. His writing sparkles like a bright... | The Demon Princes, Vol. 1: The Star King * The Killing Machine * The Palace of Love (Demon Princes) Best Price: $3.35 This (and the following 2 demon prince stories) is among Vance's best works. It really is hard... | The Jack Vance Reader Best Price: $24.49 I had never heard of Jack Vance until I was reading a eulogy for Dungeons and Dragons co-creator... |
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The Demon Princes, Vol. 2: The Face * The Book of Dreams (Demon Princes) Best Price: $10.47 The Face in particular is one of my single favorite Vance stories.
Rather than regurgitate... | Lyonesse I first read this when I was thirteen and keep coming back to read it again and again. Just... | The Demon Princes Best Price: $27.95 THE DEMON PRINCES is an anthology of five related science fiction novels written by the... | Lurulu (Ports of Call) Best Price: $3.62 This is the most recent and final book by Jack Vance and it is the sequel to Ports of Call (so... | Ports of Call Best Price: $4.79 Myron Tany wants to travel in space, though his folks want him to finish his education and be... |
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Araminta Station (Cadwal Chronicles) | The Blue World Best Price: $7.98 I have reached a point now where I am continuously reading 100 to 200 pages of sci-fi/fantasy... | Madouc (Lyonesse Book 3) Best Price: $88.12 How can this book possibly be out of print? What madness has overtaken the human race, that junk... | The Kragen Best Price: $89.95 This is a short novel that was later expanded to form "The Blue World". In my... | Ports of Call and Lurulu Best Price: $5.87 This book is an anthology containing what will probably be Jack Vance's last two works of... |
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Throy (Cadwal Chronicles, Book 3) Best Price: $29.00 Sad as it may seem, my credibility as a reviewer rests on reporting that "Throy" is a... | Ecce and Old Earth (Cadwal Chronicles, Book 2) Best Price: $19.99 "Ecce and Old Earth", sequel to the thunderous "Araminta Station", is... | Green Pearl | The Many World of Magnus Ridolph & The Brains of Earth Nopalgarth, or the Brains of Earth, will probably always evoke divided reactions because it is a... | Madouc KIng Casmir of Lyonesse, Madouc's grandfather, is conspiring to bring the whole of the elder... |
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Lyonesse: Madouc The previous reviews spoke to the main points, but the summary... did they actually read the... | Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden Best Price: $5.59 Is it really only possible to give this a five star rating? It is deserving of at least double... | The Gray Prince Best Price: $0.89 This is not a review as such, but contains a piece of information which none of other the... | The Asutra (Durdane Trilogy, Bk. 3) This is the only Durdane book I've read so far, unfortunately they seem to be out of print. It's... | The Brave Free Men: Durdane, Book II The last ten years have seen a Jack Vance renaissance of sorts, with some of his best early work... |
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The Faceless Man Gastel Etzwane is a little more clueless and weak than the protags of the Planet of Adventure... | To Live Forever A great book (in quality, it's a pitty it's so short) that reminds me Isaac Asimov's great... | When the Five Moons Rise | The Last Castle/Nightwings (Tor Double Novel, No 15) Best Price: $37.69 | Night Lamp Best Price: $214.47 For Jack Vance fans - and anyone who has never ventured into the world of Science Fiction and... |
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Green Pearl Best Price: $46.94 This is the awesome 2nd installment in the mega-awesome Lyonesse trilogy. If you like hard-core... | The Five Gold Bands A formulaic, pulp SciFi novella. I actually have never finished it...and I love Vance. It... | The Dragon Masters: The Definitive Edition Of The Hugo - Award Winning Novel Best Price: $11.50 Wonderful little story. The concept was wonderfully executed, these two species using... | Lyonesse The first Vance books I ever read. I remember picking up a paperback copy when I was maybe 15... | The Languages of Pao Best Price: $6.50 (Copied from Wikipedia article, author unknown)
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The Book of Dreams (The Demon Princes, Book 5) Last revenge.
The end of the Demon Princes series is also the weakest part of it, as the... | Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance Best Price: $29.99 If nothing else, for the short story 'Moon Moth' this is a must-read. The story is legendary... | Last Castle Best Price: $14.98 "The Last Castle," by Jack Vance, is set on Earth thousands of years in the future. ... | Emphyrio (Millennium SF Masterworks S) Best Price: $7.68 This is one of Vance's best novels, and in many ways a good introduction to this author. On... | Dragon Masters Best Price: $72.50 More vintage Vance. The last of humanity, survivors of a long and bitter galactic war with the... |
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The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph Jack Vance is a writer known to many for his excellent work in the field of fantasy fiction. His... | The Demon Princes (Volume Two): The Face, The Book of Dreams Best Price: $82.29 These novels are really 50's noirs dressed up in sci-fi clothes. The hero is actually a Philip... | The Dark Side of the Moon: Stories of the Future | Galactic Effectuator The hero of these adventures is a private investigator with a twist, he does not only... | Big Planet This was the first Jack Vance fiction I'd ever read. Nearly twenty years ago, my parents bought... |
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Araminta Station (Cadwal Chronicles, Vol 1) Best Price: $8.45 Well, I can add little to the existing reviews, except to say that Jack Vance is many things to... | Showboat World Best Price: $7.00 This is an interesting Vance story. It is set on Big Planet, a planet so big he can do pretty... | Star King (The Demon Princes, Book 1) First revenge.
A chance encounter in a bar gives Gersen a lead on his first target, as does... | Dust of Far Suns I bought this book, titled Dust of Far Suns (originally titled Future Tense), about 20 years ago... | Chasch, Los |
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The Last Castle, ACE# 47071 Ace Book, #47071. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for Science Fiction.
From the back... | Son of the tree (Ace double) | Dirdir, Los | The Palace of Love (Demon Princes, Book 3) (Vintage Berkley SF, X-1454) In the midpoint novel of the "Demon Princes" series, Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon... | Los Wankh |
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City of the Chasch Jack Vance is truly an American treasure. A prolific writer of science fiction, fantasy and... | Eyes of the Overworld (The Gregg Press Science Fiction Series ; 3) Cugel has made a mistake. He has been caught, and by a wizard that could pretty easily blast him... | The Houses of Iszm / Son of the Tree (Vintage Ace Double F-265) | Tierra Moribunda, La | |