Download or read book Cugel s Saga written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Eyes of the Overworld written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cugel The Skybreak Spatterlight written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying Earth), and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. In Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight , Cugel the Clever is still seeking revenge on the magician Iucounu, whom he blames for his exile and all his troubles. But revenge is hard to come by, and the adventures on the way are so very diverting.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Rhialto the Marvellous written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is hisThe Dying Earth series, fascinating, baroque tales set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. Rhialto the Marvellous contains three linked novellas about the adventures of the wizard Rhialto across the decadent landscape of the Dying Earth, under its swollen red sun. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Laughing Magician written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laughing Magician combines two of the most popular novels in Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. Both recount the adventures of Cugel, also called Cugel the Clever, forced by a mordant magician into a quest across an Earth of the far distant future. In this Rabelaisian picaresque, Cugel has only his wits -- and loose morals -- with which to survive a world teeming with tricksters, monsters, and magicians. Vance’s vivid, witty prose and rich imagination is combined with Stephen Fabian’s gorgeous art.
Download or read book The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody written by Will Cuppy and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1950, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spent four months on The New York Times best-seller list, and Edward R. Murrow devoted more than two-thirds of one of his nightly CBS programs to a reading from Cuppy's historical sketches, calling it "the history book of the year." The book eventually went through eighteen hardcover printings and ten foreign editions, proof of its impeccable accuracy and deadly, imperishable humor.
Download or read book Cugel Saga written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pauvre Cugel ! Alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le Magicien Rieur, le voilà renvoyé de l'autre côté de l'océan des Soupirs. Pour retourner en Almery et enfin se venger, Cugel se lance donc dans un nouveau périple foisonnant de dangers et de créatures farfelues... Encore une fois, il lui faut user de stratagèmes et de cette diplomatie sans scrupule qui lui ont tant de fois permis de se sortir de situations compromettantes... Mais si la chance sourit aux audacieux, il semble bien que le pire menace toujours les filous. Et l'atout dont il dispose, cet objet magique et puissant qu'Iucounu convoite par-dessus tout, ne sera sans doute pas de trop pour l'aider à triompher de son perfide ennemi...
Download or read book Ports of Call written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best of Jack Vance written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dying Earth written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris. Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
Download or read book The Complete Dying Earth written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A four book volume containing "The Dying Earth," "The Eyes of the Overworld," "Cugal's Saga," and "Rhialto the Marvellous."
Download or read book Azura Ghost written by Essa Hansen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man and his sentient starship are all that stands between the multiverse and its total destruction in the second book of Essa Hansen’s brilliant, mind-bending space opera trilogy perfect for fans of The Expanse and A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Caiden has been on the run for ten years in order to keep his Graven ship out of the hands of his old adversary, Threi. But when a childhood friend he once thought dead reappears to take it, he is lured into a game of hunter and hunted with the one person whose powers rival Threi’s; his sister, Abriss. Now to have a fighting chance against the most influential siblings in the multiverse, Caiden is left with no choice. He must unlock the Azura's true potential—which means finally confronting his own mysterious genetic origins. "Unpredictable and strikingly unique, Azura Ghost is science fiction without any limits to its imagination. Genre-breaking brilliance!"--David Dalglish, USA Today bestselling author "A blistering crash through bubble universes, seas of the luminous dead, and sleeping alien cities. Liquid-crystal star ships, living machines, reality-cleaving swordplay, and a dynasty whose words command your synapses and cells. Heart-heavy, astonishingly inventive, with language that burns like plasma. A biomechanical sucker punch of a book. The space opera you've been waiting for."--Micah Dean Hicks, author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones "Essa Hansen is one of the most imaginative authors in science fiction today, and in AZURA GHOST she delivers a thrill ride of a story."--Michale Mammay, author of Planetside "Azura Ghost is a magnificent achievement. Hansen juggles multiple universes as if they were fireballs, without ever dropping a single one. Like the best of science fiction, Azura Ghost asks the questions that we often fear to ask ourselves: about the extent of our responsibility in this world, what it means to choose, the limits of empathy, and the inevitability of loss; and like the best of science fiction, it asks them both at the scale of the cosmos, and at the level of a single human heart. The novel's ambition is upheld by soaring prose, which does full justice to the scope of Hansen's imagination. An instant classic." -- Gautam Bhatia, co-ordinating editor of Strange Horizons and author of The Wall and The Horizon
Download or read book The Jack Vance Treasury written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Download or read book The Houses of Iszm written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The houses if Iszm. The people of Iszm live in houses created from living tree-like plants and they alone know the secret of cultivating these plants. Aliens from other worlds have been trying for decades to break the monopoly by stealing a female house-seed.
Download or read book The Pnume written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Killing Machine written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language of the planet Thamber, does not refer to Hekkus's own predilection for homicide, but to his fondness for horrific and murderous devices, including the giant robotic executioner that first gained him his nickname. As a boy, Kirth Gersen survived a raid on his home planet masterminded by five interstellar crime lords known as the Demon Princes. This five-novel sequence recounts his carefully-planned and implacable revenge. In this, the second volume, his target is Kokor Hekkus, better known as the Killing Machine. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
Download or read book Nifft the Lean written by Michael Shea and published by . This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
