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 Best of Jack Vance written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1982-04-01 with total page 274 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: A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.

Download or read book The Best of Jack Vance written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Book of Dreams written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Moon Moth written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Moon Moth by Jack Vance is a short story first published in 1961 set in an alien society on the planet Sirene. It remains to his fans, his most popular story. The story has our hero, Edwin Thissel, a consul newly arrived from Earth who has been ordered to stop an assassin, Haxo Angmark, and his detective work in unmasking the murderer. It combines sci-fi, a murder mystery and the intricacies of society culture formalities involving the wearing of elaborate masks that determine your status and communication through song and the playing of instruments...get it wrong and you could end up dead."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book Night Lamp written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-02-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a young man's quest to discover the secret of his own origin, hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their untimely death, "Night Lamp" features exotic settings, interesting characters, and classic Vance storytelling charm.

Download or read book Ports of Call written by Jack Vance and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-01-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.

Download or read book The Dragon Masters written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book This is Me Jack Vance written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth, the Lyonesse trilogy, the adventures of Cugel the Clever, the Demon Princes series, and many other masterful tales set among the stars, in exotic fantasy realms or on our own Earth. For much of his career, Vance has also been one of the field's most private writers, an author who preferred to let his work speak for him. Now, at last, to coincide with the release of the tribute anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, Jack gives us this intimate and fascinating glimpse into his rich and eventful life, and a valuable insight into how he went about practicing his craft. For fans of the Grand Master's work, these memoirs are something to be treasured.

Download or read book Star King written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 Space Opera written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River Lune XXIII South Big Planet written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Lyonesse written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest of the bestselling Gollancz Black Books brings together Jack Vance's masterpiece of fantasy into one gorgeous volume.

Download or read book The Blue World written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture. Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they survived on the flora and fauna of the sea. But they have always been at the mercy of the kragen - gigantic squid-like monsters that prey on their fish flocks, and on them. The biggest of these is King Kragen, with whom the colonists can communicate, who has to be appeased. But one man has had enough of a life of slavery and sacrifice. But how can he convince his fellow men that King Kragen must be killed? And how can that be achieved in a world without weapons?