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Overview: Jack Vance was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to sf and fantasy magazines. His first novel, ‘The Dying Earth’, was published in 1950 to great acclaim. Since then he won both of sf’s most coveted trophies, the Hugo and Nebula awards; he also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel ‘The Man in the Cage’.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
The Moon Moth and Other Stories
Jack Vance’s early work contains the same elements of originality, wit and style which would become hallmarks of his oeuvre. This collection centers on productive years which began in the mid-50s, containing stories written between 1951 and 1973 including:
Ullward’s Retreat, a breezy look at a crowded future where wealth is measured in physical space—or better yet, the illusion of such; The New Prime (originally published as Brain of the Galaxy); The Men Return, concerning mankind in the mesh between chaos and causality; Dodkin’s Job, an entertaining story of a misfit who pits himself against a massive bureaucracy; the classic Moon Moth, describing the travails of Edwer Thissell in the fiercely formal, mask-wearing society of Sirene; Green Magic, and Howard Fair’s clumsy exploration thereof; whimsical Alfred’s Ark; pulp-era Sulwen’s Planet—and Rumfuddle, a tale of infinite realities, near-parallel existences, and the irresponsible plots of a selfish sensationalist who twists threads of history for fun.
These stories trace the path that would lead Vance to the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
The Potter of Firsk and Other Stories
Contains the stories:
Planet of the Black Dust
Dead Ahead
Hard Luck Diggings
Sanatoris Short-cut
The Unspeakable McInch
The Howling Bounders
The King of Thieves
The Sub-Standard Sardines
To B Or Not To C Or To D
The Spa of the Stars
The Enchanted Princess
The Potters of Firsk
The Visitors
The Uninhibited Robot
Dover Spargill’s Ghastly Floater
Sabotage on Sulfur Planet
Three-legged Joe
Four Hundred Blackbirds
Sjambak
Parapsyche
Sail 25
The World-Thinker and Other Stories
A collection of Vance’s early short stories, including
The World-Thinker (1944),
I’ll Build Your Dream Castle (1946),
The God and the Temple Robber (1946),
Men of the Ten Books (1949),
Seven Exits from Bocz (1949),
Telek (1951),
The Secret (1951),
Noise (1952),
D.P. (1951),
The Absent Minded Professor (1953),
The Devil on Salvation Bluff (1954),
The Phantom Milkman (1955),
Where Hesperus Falls (1955),
A Practical Man’s Guide (1956),
The House Lords (1956).
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