The Jack Vance Reader
By: edited by Johathan Strahan, Terry Dowling
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Published: July 28, 2008
Place of publication: Burton, Michigan
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781596061569
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Science Fiction - Adventure; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction; Science Fiction
Table of contents: title: Jack Vance is science fiction s world-builder par excellence, a multi-award-winning Grand Master and much-loved doyen of the art of the planetary adventure. In a career spanning 59 years, Vance has been responsible -- more than any other writer in the field -- for creating exotic alien cultures and living, breathing worlds, among them Tschai, Durdane and Big Planet, Trullion, Cadwal and Wyst, Aerlith, Fader and Dar Sai.; title: Now, in a single impressive volume, The Jack Vance Reader brings together three of the master's very best planetary adventures: the internationally acclaimed Emphyrio, the classic interplanetary whodunnit, The Domains of Koryphon, and the provocative and unforgettable The Languages of Pao.; title: Contents:; title: Worlds of Wonder: Introduction • essay by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan;--; title: Emphyrio: Introduction • essay by Robert Silverberg;--; title: Emphyrio / Jack Vance (1969);--; title: The Languages of Pao: Introduction • essay by Ursula K. Le Guin;--; title: The Languages of Pao /Jack Vance (1958);--; title: The Domains of Koryphon: Introduction • essay by Mike Resnick;--; title: The Domains of Koryphon [Gaean Reach] / Jack Vance  (1974) [variant of The Gray Prince 1975].; title: Cover by Gnemo/Tom Kidd.; title: http://www.jackvance.com/; title: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance