Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466821965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.
Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466821965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466821965
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.
This is Me, Jack Vance
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575109947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth, the Lyonesse trilogy, the adventures of Cugel the Clever, the Demon Princes series, and many other masterful tales set among the stars, in exotic fantasy realms or on our own Earth. For much of his career, Vance has also been one of the field's most private writers, an author who preferred to let his work speak for him. Now, at last, to coincide with the release of the tribute anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, Jack gives us this intimate and fascinating glimpse into his rich and eventful life, and a valuable insight into how he went about practicing his craft. For fans of the Grand Master's work, these memoirs are something to be treasured.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575109947
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth, the Lyonesse trilogy, the adventures of Cugel the Clever, the Demon Princes series, and many other masterful tales set among the stars, in exotic fantasy realms or on our own Earth. For much of his career, Vance has also been one of the field's most private writers, an author who preferred to let his work speak for him. Now, at last, to coincide with the release of the tribute anthology Songs of the Dying Earth, Jack gives us this intimate and fascinating glimpse into his rich and eventful life, and a valuable insight into how he went about practicing his craft. For fans of the Grand Master's work, these memoirs are something to be treasured.
The Complete Dying Earth
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cugel the clever (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
A four book volume containing "The Dying Earth," "The Eyes of the Overworld," "Cugal's Saga," and "Rhialto the Marvellous."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cugel the clever (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
A four book volume containing "The Dying Earth," "The Eyes of the Overworld," "Cugal's Saga," and "Rhialto the Marvellous."
The Jack Vance Treasury
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A massive (over 230,000 words) gathering of fiction by the master of science-fantasy.
Ports of Call
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women.
The Book of Dreams
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470438
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Star King
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 161947039X
Category : Revenge
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 161947039X
Category : Revenge
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Night Lamp
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The story of a young man's quest to discover the secret of his own origin, hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their untimely death, "Night Lamp" features exotic settings, interesting characters, and classic Vance storytelling charm.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312864729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The story of a young man's quest to discover the secret of his own origin, hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their untimely death, "Night Lamp" features exotic settings, interesting characters, and classic Vance storytelling charm.
Wyst: Alastor 1716
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
ISBN: 1619470497
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The Dying Earth
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575109483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris. Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0575109483
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris. Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.