Jack Vance, Author . Tor $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-312-86727-0
The sequel to SFWA Grand Master Vance's Ports of Call
(1998) continues the adventures of Myron Tany in a headlong rush of droll vignettes in the spirit, if not with the depth, of Gulliver's Travels
. Abandoned by his great-aunt for dawdling
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Jack Vance, Author Underwood-Miller $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88733-125-1
The eponymous heroine of this fantasy, the conclusion to Vance's Lyonesse trilogy, is the quarrelsome, spunky, forthright princess of Lyonesse, who was born out of wedlock--or so she is led to believe. When she discovers that she's actually a...
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Jack Vance, Author Underwood-Miller $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-88733-098-8
The five novella-length stories in this collection amply indicate the range of SF subgenres at which Vance ( The Dragon Masters ), an accomplished story teller, excels. ``Abercrombie Station'' and ``Cholwell's Chickens'' together make up the space...
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Jack Vance, Author St. Martin's Press $21.95 (436p) ISBN 978-0-312-85132-3
Vance's rich lyrical style makes this follow-up to Araminta Station a pleasure to read. The planet Cadwal, established long before as a Conservancy--a natural preserve protected from settlement and development--is threatened by powerful factions...
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Jack Vance, Author Tor Books $18.95 (255p) ISBN 978-0-312-85133-0
Continuing his tales of Cadwal, governed for generations by the Conservancy, which is dedicated to preserving the planet's natural beauty, Vance posits a scenario in which the Conservancy is now rent by factional conflict between the radical Life,...
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Jack Vance, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85801-8
Classic space opera is alive and kicking in this latest interstellar spree from Vance (Night Lamp), who turns 82 this year. In the far future, young Myron Tany seems destined to be a misty-eyed dreamer, pining away for interstellar intrigue, until...
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Jack Vance, Author Tor Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-85685-4
Young Jaro comes home to find a man torturing his mother. The boy repels the stranger, then obeys his mother's command to kill her in order to end her pain. Then the fleeing Jaro is nearly beaten to death by malicious older boys. Brain-damaged, the...
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Jack Vance, Author Gollancz $14.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-575-07117-9
SF/Fantasy/Horror NOTES July Publications ""To land anywhere on Big Planet except Earth Enclave meant tragedy, debacle, cataclysm"": it doesn't look good for Claude Glystra's interstellar mission when his sabotaged ship crashes deep in the heart...
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Jack Vance. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (560p) ISBN 978-1-59606-359-4
Fans of F&SF Grand Master Vance will best appreciate these three subpar crime novels. The opener, The Deadly Isles (1969), which concerns a series of murders tied to an affluent San Francisco family, fails to cohere, despite a promising premise: one
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Jack Vance, Author, Terry Dowling, Editor, Jonathan Strahan, Editor . Subterranean $38 (633p) ISBN 978-1-59606-077-7
Encompassing multiple permutations of the planetary romance genre, this best-of collection gathers 18 seminal if sometimes redundant stories and novellas, dating from the 1950s to the 1970s, from SF Grand Master Vance. A brief, illuminating snippet...
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Jack Vance, Author, Terry Dowling, Editor, Jonathan Strahan, Editor Subterranean $40 (354p) ISBN 978-1-59606-226-9
The “spun-silver” prose of fantasy grand master Vance (Lurulu
) illuminates 12 delightful stories, some with intriguing afterwords by the author. Insightfully introduced by editors Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan, this showcase...
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Jack Vance, Author, Steven O. Godersky, Editor Underwood Books $20 (237p) ISBN 978-0-88733-020-9
In the early '70s Tiptree (the pseudonym of clinical psychologist Alice B. Sheldon), made a big splash in SF with a series of powerful, convoluted and misanthropic stories. The three recent tales included in this small, illustrated collection,...
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Edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan, Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $40 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59606-301-3
This collection assembles 14 stories published by celebrated SFWA Grand Master Vance between 1948 and 1959. Even these early tales make it clear why Vance is still one of the most revered, read, and taught of science fiction authors, highlighting...
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Jack Vance. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (568p) ISBN 978-1-59606-463-8
This second collection of Vance crime novels edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (after 2011’s Dangerous Ways) shows Vance to be a highly skilled practitioner of the traditional mystery. The first of the three, The Fox Valley Murders (1966),
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Edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59606-560-4
Even a Grandmaster needs to begin somewhere. This evolving collection of 16 early SF stories by Vance, an award winner for mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, starts off with space opera in its pulpiest form—sprinkled with retrofuturism and...
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Jack Vance and Humayoun Ibraham. Roaring Brook/First Second, $17.99 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-59643-367-0
Barely out of school, Edwer Thissel is appointed consular representative to the world Sirene, which Edwer soon learns enforces its social norms—including the universal habit of wearing masks—with lethal ferocity. Three months after arriving on...
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Edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $45 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59606-451-5
Dowling and Strahan follow 2010’s Hard-Luck Diggings with 10 more wide-ranging tales from the early career of lauded and much-awarded SF Grand Master Vance. “The Dogtown Tourist Agency” (1975) sets a mystery on a precariously balanced world jointly...
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Edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $45 (472p) ISBN 978-1-59606-710-3
Fans of SFWA Grandmaster Vance (1916–2013) know him for jeweled language and dry wit, but this volume of five short novels brings out his two-fisted, pulp-action side. Vance’s protagonists—a failed starship engine thief on an interstellar treasure...
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