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	The Jack Vance Treasury \| Book Reviews \| SCI FI Weekly
		"Guyal of Sfere" is a tale from Vance's famous "Dying Earth" sequence, in which a youth with immense curiosity inherits the legacy of all mankind.
		Out of his wide reading, Vance forged a voice that is unmistakable and alluring to a set of readers who favor subtlety and panache over brute force and naivete.
		Vance is the sophisticate of the SF and fantasy genres, although at the same time he has a direct tap into the raw and vital currents of life: lust, anger, jealousy, pride, revenge.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/books/sfw14555.html (689 words)

	Jack Vance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vance grew up on a ranch in the area of the San Joaquin Valley around the delta of the Sacramento River and was an avid reader of the popular adventure-oriented pulp fiction of the 1920s.
		Vance's own references to Bay Area bohemian life (directly in his early mysteries and in disguised form in his science-fiction novels) suggest affinities with this movement although not with its beat-generation wing.
		Vance has spoken of his fondness for the writings of P.G. Wodehouse and a certain influence of Wodehouse can be discerned in some of Vance's writings, especially in his portrayals of overbearing aunts and their easily intimidated nephews.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Vance (4101 words)

	Visit to Jack Vance
		Jack Vance did assume a pose regarding payments due to him, his fame (he is undeniably famous, and he knows it), his reputation as compared with the reputations of the contemporary writers, and many other things.
		Jack Vance is physically strong for his age but has that saintly look of an old sage (partly because he has a habit of turning his face straight up with remote, unseeing eyes looking far through the ceiling when he thinks and asks questions).
		Jack Vance thinks that modern American society is one of the most benign in history but that political correctness and other socialist "experiments on people" are iniquitous and should be stopped.
	www.feht.com /reviews/vance.html (3929 words)

	Lurulu (Ports of Call) by Jack Vance
		The best thing in life is, Vance concludes, a relative isolation of a small group of the detached observers of life, preferably well-heeled, in the constant state of mental, emotional, and physical escape.
		Jack Vance always had a penchant for the cold, somewhat frustrating touch of reality in the last paragraphs of his books.
		Taking into account Jack's age, his blindness, and the substandard milieu he must lean upon and endure, Jack Vance remains a miracle giant of mind and spirit, an enviable example of graceful, endlessly forgiving genius who illuminated the dusk of the Western civilization with his (last?) Voltairian smile of reason.
	www.feht.com /reviews/lurulu.html (558 words)

	Challenger 21 - A Visit With Jack Vance: 2004 by David B. Williams
		In 1967, Vance was in the middle of a years-long, multi-phase remodeling and expansion of his house.
		Vance worked as a professional carpenter while building his career as a writer, so he was well prepared to do the job himself.
		Jack Vance, the premier wordsmith, gropes for the right word to express his reaction to the VIE project.
	www.challzine.net /21/21vance.html (1863 words)

	Lord of Language, Emperor of Dreams: a profile of Jack Vance - infinity plus non-fiction
		Vance's tales of SF and Fantasy are his own in every sense: colourful, poised, exotic, mordant; inimitable mixtures of satire, travelogue, adventure story, Bildungsroman, social comedy, and philosophical disquisition.
		Vance's two great fantasy worlds, the Dying Earth and Lyonesse, are first and foremost triumphs of style: their astonishing richness of diction, their panoply of strange names, the majestic evocation of their otherworldly beasts and agencies, their mysterious descriptive vistas and poetic musics, are what place them among the greatest works of postwar Fantasy.
		Between 1958 and 1973, Jack Vance published a succession of tales that explored with insight and vividness the causes and courses of wars and revolutions, identifying the tensions that occasion them and the role of individuals in their resolution.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/jvprofile.htm (3169 words)

	Locus Online: Lawrence Person reviews Jack Vance
		In the first circle is Joaz Banbeck, one of Vance's many cool, honorable, and level-headed protagonists, and the leader of Banbeck Vale, the preeminent human settlement on mountainous Aerlith.
		Jack Vance's protagonists are not always smarter than their opponents (though frequently they are), but they always seem to see the world more clearly, peering past the veils of taboo and custom to the heart of the matter.
		Vance's work has a depth, richness and sophistication that can be enjoyed long after you know how the story ends.
	www.locusmag.com /2003/Reviews/10_Person_Vance.html (1356 words)

	jack vance profile - zone-sf.com
		Jack Vance is the pre-eminent voice in contemporary fantasy; few other fantasy writers have shown his range of vision, depth of imagination and control of words.
		Vance had an idyllic rural childhood, and the love of the outdoors that he learnt in these early years has remained a strong element of his work.
		Vance's family could not afford to send him to university when he graduated from high school at the height of the Depression, and so he wandered the country, taking on a variety of menial jobs - fruit picking, labouring in a factory making mining equipment, work in mines and oil wells.
	www.zone-sf.com /jackvance.html (2062 words)

	Jack Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Here, in one volume, is Jack Vance's masterpiece, the Dying Earth saga, comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous.
		Vance knows about childhood, grief, love, social structure, idealism, and loss, but none of these breaks the perfect surface of the hook; everything is cool, funny, and recognisable while at the same time everything is melancholy, real, and indescribably strange.' Joanna Russ, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
		'Jack Vance is our greatest living SF writer, and Emphyrio is one of his very best books, a magical tour de force of mystery, marvel, invention, incident, world building, and wordplay.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/jackvance.html (1299 words)

	Jack Vance, The Dying Earth
		In "T'sais" Vance draws most succinctly the theme that runs through the whole collection: that what we consider as degraded may actually be more due to our modernism than due to the degeneration of the object.
		By having her see what beauty there is as ugly, Vance shows that even in Earth's old age there is still beauty in what remains and that perhaps we should re-examine in our own lives what we consider to be beautiful.
		Vance, however, does not feel the need to grant the reader's wish and instead seems to be aware of this desire.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_vance_dyingearth.html (786 words)

	Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Jack Vance
		Vance has been writing books for over half a century and, just in our fields, already has out--he is the only of my five-star authors still producing--well over two score novels and about a dozen and a half (depending on how one counts) collections of short stories.
		The speeches Vance puts in his characters' mouths are often not at all plausible, but therein lies their very charm: a dull, stupid, ignorant, old man in a cheap bar remarking that "In this life events bend to no such kindly patterns" (and there you see the resemblance to Bramah and the Kai Lung tales).
		Vance's dialogues do not succeed, do not achieve their peculiar pungency, their deliciously mordant quality, on the basis of telling punch lines: they succeed by effortlessly sustaining their gentle but firm ironic tone (Vance is never crude or overbearing with his irony) throughout each tale.
	www.greatsfandf.com /AUTHORS/JackVance.shtml (7746 words)

	A Visit to Jack Vance
		Jack described how their house had evolved from a small cabin thanks to his carpentry skills, later supplemented by those of his son, John.
		Jack Vance, it seemed to me, had the advantage of a smart, supportive, and patient family.
		Jack Vance was pretty much the person I had expected him to be.
	homepage.mac.com /joebergeron/jackvance.html (1760 words)

	Jack Vance
		Author Jack Vance is legendary for his wry wit, his grand use of language, and most especially for the fantastically envisioned worlds and cultures that populate his tales.
		Born John Holbrook Vance in 1916, Jack Vance and his siblings were raised, by their mother, on their grandparents rural California ranch.
		Enjoying what he recalls as an idyllic rural childhood, Vance grew up with a love of the outdoors and was a voracious reader, devouring the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, L.
	www.nndb.com /people/428/000045293 (564 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: The Languages of Pao by Jack Vance
		Vance tells us that, "[o]n Breakness, status was based on a quality best described as the forcible imprinting of self upon the future,” (p.
		Vance is expressing what's known as the strong version of the SWH, in which humans are only able to think in terms of the language they speak—if their language cannot formulate some concept, then they cannot think it.
		Vance has done something with the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis that I find fascinating: rather than simply understanding it as a theory for describing human languages, he takes it to be a principle for designing human languages intended to produce a particular mentality in their speakers.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/01/ithe_languages__1.html (2484 words)

	Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame -- Science Fiction HOF -- Jack Vance
		Beginning in the late 1940s, Vance contributed a variety of short stories and novels to the pulp magazines, but nothing of this early work, dependent as it was on pulp conventions, prefigured the mature Vance.
		Vance's second original contribution to the science fiction and fantasy fields was his sophisticated approach to the "planetary romance," a style of science fiction tale in which the setting is a richly detailed planet, the characteristics of which significantly effect the plot.
		Vance's work not only expanded this genre's existing archetypes, but established several new ones, significantly inspiring other authors to this day.
	www.sfhomeworld.org /exhibits/homeworld/scifi_hof.asp?articleID=68 (282 words)

	Amazon.com: Tales of the Dying Earth: Books: Jack Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction.
		Vance's strengths are in his descriptive detail and the imagination in which he invests the world that he creates.
		These stories represent Vance across his career as a professional author (the first of the "Dying Earth" tales were written while he was still a merchant seaman in the 1940's) through 1983, when "Rhialto" was published.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312874561?v=glance (3041 words)

	Vance Vengeance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The most spectacular vengeance in Vance's science fiction, probably in anyone's science fiction, is in The Face, when a moon is changed so that a whole ethnic group has to look at a face belonging from a different culture, that they have judged to be inferior.
		Vance usually puts some sort of religious group, or more than one, in his works, and they are never a positive force.
		A page on Vance's writing quotes Vance's imaginary Baron Bodissey, writer of the multi-volume work, Life: "If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde reckons, the religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race.
	home.earthlink.net /~mflabar/VenVance/VanceVengeancefant.htm (2677 words)

	Notes From Coode Street » The Jack Vance Treasury
		Jack has written a brief preface for the book, and we’ve managed to source comments from him on almost all of the stories which will run as afterwords (the main source of these, for VancePhiles, was the 1976 The Best of Jack Vance).
		Now, using figures from the Vance Integral Edition website, I estimate that there were a total of 123 works published between 1944 and 1984 that might be considered to be “short works”.
		Vance’s early stories, characterized as they were by rich, stylized prose, mannered characters, and drawing-room plots must have seemed both refreshing and unusual to the readers of Thrilling Wonder Stories and Super Science Fiction.
	www.jonathanstrahan.com.au /wp/category/the-jack-vance-treasury (1676 words)

	Vance, The Jack Vance Treasury: Subterranean Press
		Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers of the 20th century.
		Born in San Francisco in 1916, Vance wrote much of what you'll find between these covers both abroad and at home in the hills above Oakland, either while serving in the merchant marine or traveling the world with his wife Norma, all the while pursuing his great love of fine cuisine and traditional jazz.
		With a Preface by Vance himself and a foreword by long-time Vance reader George R.R. Martin, it stands as the capstone to a splendid career and makes the perfect introduction to a very special writer.
	www.subterraneanpress.com /Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=vance&Category_Code=B&Product_Count=99 (567 words)

	Jerry Hewitt and Daryl F. Mallet, The Work of Jack Vance -- An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Jack Vance is one of those authors who -- well, simply put, if you haven't read anything by Jack Vance, you really can't claim to have read science fiction.
		Reading through this bibliography is somewhat of a trip down memory lane for me. I first encountered many of these stories when they were published in the pulps (although by that time we didn't call them "pulps," because they were growing up and becoming "magazines").
		Fortunately, for those such as yours truly, for whom time is a somewhat fluid and arbitrary medium, there is an index of titles, as well as indices of illustrators and cover artists, editors, magazines and periodicals, publishers, critics and reviewers, and secondary sources.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_hewittandmallet_vance.html (369 words)

	Amazon.com: Lurulu (Ports of Call): Books: Jack Vance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		As is often the case with Vance, the scenery and sociology dominate the narrative.
		The ex-sailor Vance is one of the last romanticizers of the spaceways, and all of his readers should be affected by the way in which Myron's story is resolved.
		Vance has always been known for his startling turns of phrase, his carved and graven prose, but this is the best and most consistent example of it that I can remember seeing.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312867271?v=glance (2031 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Jack Vance
		Bio: It is no overstatement to class Jack Vance among the greatest authors of the 20th century.
		Jack has influenced several generations of authors, artists, and musicians in all genres.
		In The Dragon Masters, the first of ibooks definitive reissues of the work of Jack Vance, he develops several races of people and follows the life of a boy born into and growing up in a stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/JackVanceeBooks.htm (932 words)

	Jack Vance Visit
		Their modern habit is to try and get away with paying authors an up-front fee, plus royalties, and then enjoy forever the right of printing works as much as they like (or never again) on nothing more simple advertising whim.
		Jack has been writing since ten years even before I was born, and is getting quite elderly now.
		The VIE is a project thought up by Paul Rhodes, an artist and one of Jack’s most ardent fans.
	starling.us /gan/vance_visit_1 (528 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: The Jack Vance Treasury
		Jack Vance's original manuscripts for several of his books are kept at Boston University's main library in the manuscripts department.
		Cugel the Clever sidles and struts beneath the fading sun of an ancient Earth, foiling and being foiled by magicians in grand palaces and sly headmen of rude villages.
		All taken in all, this is a first-rate selection of a grandmaster in all the disparate moods and periods of his sixty-year career.
	www.sfsite.com /01a/vt239.htm (662 words)

	Jack Vance, an appreciation
		Jack Vance has been crafting fiction since 1945, when his first published short story, The World Thinker made an appearance in Thrilling Wonder Stories, a now defunct American "pulp" magazine.
		Vance is sometimes anachronistic, having swords in a far future setting, or people dancing stately pavanes, when such things died out several hundred years ago.
		I'm not really sure as to any real life examples Vance may have based this on, but in every book I've read so far, he descends to the bazaar quite readily in order to haggle or be parsimonious with his character's personae.
	www.ulujain.org /vance/vance.shtml (1779 words)

	Jack Vance
		Jack Vance featured himself, or at least a descendant, as the ethnographer "Jan Holberk Vaenz LXII" (Vance's full name is John Holbrook Vance) in The Star King.
		Vance himself may consider them doggerel, but I find them delightful, full of music and rhythm and whimsy, which is sadly no longer considered the province of "serious poetry".
		Vance is one of the great writers of science fiction and fantasy.
	www.stmoroky.com /reviews/authors/vance.htm (1375 words)

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