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Jack Vance

(John Holbrook Vance)

(1916 - 2013)

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'.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Series

Dying Earth
   1. The Dying Earth (1950)
     aka Mazirian the Magician
   2. The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)
     aka Cugel the Clever
   3. Cugel's Saga (1966)
     aka Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
   4. Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
   Morreion (1968)
   The Seventeen Virgins (1974)
   The Bagful of Dreams (1979)
   The Laughing Magician (1997)

Big Planet
1. Big Planet (1952)
2. Showboat World (1975)

Demon Princes
   1. The Star King (1964)
   2. The Killing Machine (1964)
   3. The Palace of Love (1967)
   4. The Face (1979)
   5. The Book of Dreams (1981)
   The Demon Princes (2005)

Nopalgarth
   1. Son of the Tree (1964)
   2. The Houses of Iszm (1964)
   3. The Brains of Earth (1966)

Magnus Ridolph
   The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)
   The Complete Magnus Ridolph (1984)
   Magnus Ridolph (2012)

Tschai, Planet of Adventure
   1. City of the Chasch (1968)
   2. Servants of the Wankh (1969)
     aka The Wannek
   3. The Dirdir (1969)
   4. The Pnume (1970)
   The Chasch (2011)
   Tschai (2012)

Durdane
   1. The Anome (1973)
     aka The Faceless Man
   2. The Brave Free Men (1973)
   3. The Asutra (1974)

Alastor
   1. Trullion (1973)
   2. Marune (1975)
   3. Wyst (1978)
continued in the series by Tais Teng

Gaean Reach
1. The Gray Prince (1974)
2. Maske (1976)

Lyonesse
   1. Suldrun's Garden (1983)
     aka Lyonesse
   2. The Green Pearl (1985)
   3. Madouc (1989)

Cadwal Chronicles
   1. Araminta Station (1988)
   2. Ecce and Old Earth (1991)
   3. Throy (1992)
   The Cadwal Chronicles (2012)

Ports of Call
1. Ports of Call (1998)
2. Lurulu (2004)

Early Jack Vance
   1. Hard Luck Diggings (2010)
   2. Dream Castles (2012)
   3. Magic Highways (2013)
   4. Minding the Stars (2014)

Miro Hetzel
   1. The Dogtown Tourist Agency (2012)
   2. Freitzke's Turn (2012)
   Miro Hetzel (2012)

Novels

   The Five Gold Bands (1953)
     aka The Space Pirate
   Vandals of the Void (1953)
   To Live Forever (1956)
   The Languages of Pao (1958)
   Slaves of the Klau (1958)
     aka Gold and Iron
   The Man in the Cage (1960)
   The Dragon Masters (1963)
   Monsters in Orbit (1965)
   Space Opera (1965)
   The Blue World (1966)
   The Last Castle (1966)
   Emphyrio (1969)
   Bad Ronald (1973)
   Galactic Effectuator (1981)
   Night Lamp (1996)
   Clarges (2011)
   The Domains of Koryphon (2011)
   The Magnificent Showboats (2011)
   The Deadly Isles (2012)
   Bird Isle (2012)
   The Dark Ocean (2012)
   The Flesh Mask (2012)
   The Fox Valley Murders (2012)
   The House on Lily Street (2012)
   The Pleasant Grove Murders (2012)
   Strange People, Queer Notions (2012)
   The View from Chickweed's Window (2012)

Omnibus

   The Dragon Masters / The 5 Gold Bands (1969)
   Son of the Tree / Houses of Iszm (1970)
   Three Trips in Time and Space (1973) (with John Brunner and Larry Niven)
   The Last Castle / Nightwings (1989) (with Robert Siverberg)
   A Short, Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters (1990) (with Kim Stanley Robinson)
   Dangerous Ways (2011)

Collections

   Future Tense (1964)
     aka Dust of the Far Suns
   Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969)
   The Worlds of Jack Vance (1973)
   The Moon Moth (1975)
   The Best of Jack Vance (1976)
   Fantasms and Magics (1978)
   Green Magic (1979)
   Nopalgarth (1980)
   Lost Moons (1982)
   The Narrow Land (1982)
   Demon Prince (1985)
   Light from a Lone Star (1985)
   The Dark Side of the Moon (1986)
   The Augmented Agent (1986)
   Bird Isle and Take My Face (1988)
   Chateau D'If (1990)
   When the Five Moons Rise (1992)
   The Jack Vance Treasury (2007)
   The Jack Vance Reader (2008)
   The Men Return (2009)
   Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)
   The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories (2011)
   The World-Thinker and Other Stories (2011)
   The Dragon Masters and Other Stories (2011)
   Son of the Tree and Other Stories (2011)
   Golden Girl and Other Stories (2012)
   Sail 25 and Other Stories (2012)
   Wild Thyme and Violets (2012)
   Desperate Days (2012)
   Big Planet / The Blue World / The Dragon Masters and Other Stories (2013)
   Grand Crusades (2015)

Novellas

   The Kragen (2007)
   Sjambak (2009)
   The Rapparee (2011)
   The Miracle Workers (2012)
   Dodkin's Job (2015)

Non fiction

   The Jack Vance Lexicon (1993) (with Dan Temianka)
   This is Me, Jack Vance! (2009)
   This Is Me, Jack Vance! Or More Properly, This Is I (2012)

Anthologies containing stories by Jack Vance

Best SF 3 (1958)
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction 13th Series (1964)
The Spell of Seven (1965)
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 181 (1966)
Nebula Award Stories 2 (1966)
Robert Silverberg's Worlds of Wonder (1969)
The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 (1973)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B (1973)
Universe 4 (1974)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 3 (1974)
Space Opera (1974)
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories (1976)
Realms of Wizardry (1976)
The Year's Finest Fantasy (1978)
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII (1979)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
A Century of Science Fiction 1950-1959 (1981)
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981)
The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
The Science Fiction Weight-Loss Book (1985)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
Horror Story Volume 3 (1991)
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
Strange Dreams (1993)
Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994)
The Good Old Stuff (1995)
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1998)
aka The Fantasy Hall of Fame
A Magic-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic (1998)
Nebula Awards 32 (1998)
Immortals (1998)
Don't Open This Book! (1998)
The Furthest Horizon (2000)

Short stories

	The Killing Machine [short story]
	The Mitr
	The Palace of Love [short story]
	The Star King [short story]
	Guyal of Sfere (1950)
	Liane the Wayfarer (1950)
	The Loom of Darkness (1950)
	Mazirian the Magician (1950)
	T'sais (1950)
	Turhan of Miir (1950)
	Ulan Dhor (1950)
	The New Prime (1951)
	Abercrombie Station (1952)
	DP! (1953)
	The Gift of Gab (1955)
	The Men Return [short story] (1957)
	The Miracle Workers (1958)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Moon Moth [short story] (1961)
	The Dragon Masters [short story] (1962)		Hugo
	Green Magic [short story] (1963)
	The Overworld (1965)
	The Last Castle [short story] (1966)		Hugo Nebula Awards
	The Pilgrims (1966)
	The Secret (1966)
	Rumfuddle (1973)
	Assault on a City (1974)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Seventeen Virgins [short story] (1974)
	The Bagful of Dreams [short story] (1977)		World Fantasy (nominee)

Awards

	Hugo Best Novellette nominee (1959) : The Miracle Workers
	Hugo Best Short Story winner (1963) : The Dragon Masters [short story]
	Hugo Best Novellette winner (1967) : The Last Castle [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novella winner (1967) : The Last Castle [short story]
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1975) : Assault on a City
	World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1978) : The Bagful of Dreams [short story]
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1980)
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1981)
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement nominee (1982)
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1984) : Suldrun's Garden
	World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement winner (1984)
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1984) : Suldrun's Garden
	World Fantasy Best Novel winner (1990) : Madouc