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Jack Vance
Vance’s fantasy masterpiece, available for the first time in the UK as one volume.
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Here, collected in one volume, is the Alastor trilogy: three classic sci-fi adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best: Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933, and Wyst: Alastor…
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Sjambak, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have…
The latest of the bestselling Gollancz Black Books brings together Jack Vance's masterpiece of fantasy into one gorgeous volume.
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Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy, but the use of automation is punishable by death. When…
Jack Rawlins
A study of the work of John Holbrook Vance (the nom-de-plume on his mystery novels), who is most famous as science fiction writer Jack Vance. The Milford Series: Popular Writers…
Samuel Langtry stumbles on the secret of interstellar propulsion, and his offspring follow strands of humanity which leave Earth for far planets. Many generations later, earthly man is regarded as…
Roger Wool is an amiable young gentleman whose wealthy, high-minded aunt, Dame Isabel Grayce, is Secretary-Treasurer of the Opera League on Earth.
Dame Isabel is tantalized by the inscrutable stage…
Detectives of the future will command stealth and arcane techniques to satisfy their stingy and demanding clients, who seek results over interstellar distances. Miro Hetzel is an Effectuator: one who…
This deluxe first edition of Nightlamp is signed by Jack Vance and comes in a linen traycase.
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Gastel Etzwane and his army of Brave Free Men have driven the Roguskhoi from Durdane, only to discover that Durdane is but one tiny front – a testing ground –…
Jack Vance mastered his craft over more than sixty years, garnering awards including the Nebula, Edgar, two Hugos, and the 1997 SFWA Grandmaster. The stories in this collection were written…
The Connatic rules the three thousand inhabited planets of the Alastor Cluster from his palace Lusz on the world Numenes. Though his military force can bring considerable might to bear…
Wayness en Glawen zijn erin geslaagd om de plannen van hun tegenstanders te dwarsbomen, maar dat betekent niet dat het gevaar nu geweken is. De LVV'ers van Julian Bohost en…
‘One of the finest writers the science fiction field has ever known’ Poul Anderson
Eight of these nine stories were published between 1951 and 1955, years when Jack Vance wrote for the pulp magazines. Even in this early work, the voice of the future…
On Big Planet lies the Tinsitala Steppe and the great Vissel River, navigated by showboats bringing entertainment and spectacle to far-flung, idiosyncratic communities ashore. Canny ship-masters press relentlessly for advantage…
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Originally published in 1983 by Berkley Books. First published in this edition in 2002 by Vance Integral Edition.
In these early novellas SF Grand Master Jack Vance tells tales of fanaticism, interplanetary politics, intrigue and subterfuge, while displaying his trademark gifts for inventiveness, rich detail and colorful description.
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Fifteen-year-old Dick Murdock travels aboard the African Star to the Moon, to meet his father Dr. Paul Murdock-Chief Astronomer at the Lunar Observatory.
En route, the African Star finds the…
Originally published in 1987 by Ace Books. First published in this edition in 2002 by Vance Integral Edition.
Wicked King Casmir cannot control Madouc, the wild and willful changeling secretly switched at birth with Prince Dhrun, rightful heir to the throne. So Casmir ordains a quest: whosoever brings…
Noel Hutson considers himself a gentleman adventurer-but running guns in Morocco during Algeria’s revolution, he gets more than he bargained for.
Noel goes missing, and his brother Darrell Hutson comes…
Ausley Wyett returns on parole to hometown Marblestone, after 16 years in prison for the rape and murder of young Tissie McAllister. He maintains he was innocent-but townfolk are scandalized…
Local boy Joe Bain has been elected County Sheriff, after his success with the murders in Fox Valley.
He’s just settling into the job when someone kills the Pleasant Grove…
Seventeen-year old Ronald Wilby is an introverted young man with a protective single mother.
Walking home one evening, Ronald stumbles into young Carol Mathews; in the encounter, Carol ends up…
Ted Bunpole proposes, and Betty Haverhill says no. But Ted won’t take no for an answer, and the situation gets tiresome. Betty books passage to Europe by freighter.
The Garda…
Graduate researcher Luke Royce lives quietly on Tahiti, until he’s run off a cliff and left for dead.
Circumstances are confusing, and evidence sparse-but a plot becomes clear during an…
An acknowledged master of highly imaginative work in SF and Fantasy, Jack Vance was nonetheless a practical and realistic man, having a perspective colored by personal knowledge of hardship. As…
In the aftermath of World War II, 8-year-old Luellen Enright is orphaned and shipped to San Francisco and the care of a covetous aunt, over-friendly uncle, and adolescent male cousins.
Chuck Musgrave takes a job doing charcoal sketches of Positano. His employer is Kex-a man for mischief, with no care for consequence. Chuck resembles James Hilfstone, a no-good who’s been…
Lying off the coast of Monterey, Bird Island is favored with tranquil beaches, coves and rocky hills. The island is home to a finishing school for girls, and a picturesque…
Collects three of the author’s novels about the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for…
A race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction, the Demon Princes have themselves become the hunted, their peri lying in the hands of…
Together for the first time in one omnibus edition–City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and The Pnume. Award-winning author Vance’s exotic and complex world is filled…
In these early novellas SF Grand Master Jack Vance tells tales of fanaticism, interplanetary politics, intrigue and subterfuge, while displaying his trademark gifts for inventiveness, rich detail and colorful description…
Fifteen-year-old Dick Murdoch leaves Venus to meet his father Paul on the Moon. On the voyage there, the captain stops to examine the wreckage of a sister spaceship. No one…
THE BLUE WORLD, a beautiful world, a world of water, with floating islands made by the thick, spreading tops of gigantic ocean growths, big enough to support neat houses and…
Here in one unforgettable volume are three of Jack Vance’s best novellas-rich adventures of humanity in crisis, showcasing Vance’s stylistic flair, creative ingenuity, wit, and storytelling skill: the Hugo-winning The…
A novel of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed
Where the Anomes once ruled stands young Gastel Etzwane, facing a mortal threat to his homeland. Hordes of Red Roguskhoi, armed by an unknown enemy, have swarmed out of the…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Grand Master Jack Vance’s haunting tale of the search for identity across time and space.
POD 62 This Is MeHis 90th birthday behind him, Jack Vance - once the most private of writers - tells the story of his rich and eventful life, full of…
Jack Vance was one of the most influential writers in science fiction, fantasy, and mystery literature. Beginning in 1945 with his short story The World-Thinker , followed in 1950 by…
Op Venus scheept de vijftienjarige Dick Murdock zich in op de African Star, om zich bij zijn vader te voegen die net benoemd is tot Hoofd Astronomie van het Maanobservatorium.
