Songs of the Dying Earth, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois – review
The authors of the stories in this anthology all provide an afterward in which they talk about their first encounter with a piece of Jack Vance’s writing and how that piece of writing influenced their careers and inspired them. It seems only fitting that I add my own first encounter with Jack Vance. I know [...]
New York Times profiles Jack Vance
The New York Times profiles Jack Vance.
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Book Review – The Dying Earth
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: Lancer Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 1969 The Dying Earth is without a doubt one of the classics of Fantasy. When this collection of six linked short stories, all of which had appeared in pulp fantasy magazines, was first published as in 1950 is was a big hit. Jack Vance went [...]
Book Review – Suldrun’s Garden
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: Gollancz Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2002 The classic voices of epic fantasy span the last century, from the initial quests of Howard and Tolkien to the late 70s revival of Donaldson and Brooks to the sweeping modern sagas of Jordan and Martin. Yet lost between those last two eras lies an [...]
Book Review – Tales of the Dying Earth
Author: Jack Vance Cover Artist: John Berkey Publisher: Orb Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2000 Jack Vance’s Dying Earth stories are perhaps one of the best-known works in the eponymous “Dying Earth” sub-genre, alongside other greats like the Viriconium stories and Book of the New Sun (Gene Wolfe has in fact cited Vance as an influence [...]
Book Review – The Dragon Masters
Author: Jack Vance Publisher: I Books Binding: Paperback Publication Date: 2003 Science fiction changed forever when the Viking probe landed on Mars in 1976 and sent back color pictures of the rugged, ochre-colored landscape. No longer could SF writers set their stories among the “canals” of Mars, or have colonists romping across the surface of [...]
