Jack Vance

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  • Bibliography:
    123 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1958
  • Latest Book:
    May 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Alastor

1 - Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
2 - Marune: Alastor 933 (1975)
3 - Wyst: Alastor 1716 (Nov-1978)

Cadwal Chronicles

1 - Araminta Station (Apr-1989)
3 - Throy (May-1994)

Demon Princes

The Face the Book of Dream (Sep-1997)

The Demon Princes

1 - Star King (Sep-1978)
2 - The Killing Machine (Jun-1984)
3 - The Palace of Love (Feb-1979)
4 - The Face (Nov-1979)
5 - The Book of Dreams (Jul-1984)

Durdane

1 - The Faceless Man (1978)
2 - Brave Free Men (Sep-1987)
The Asutra (Dec-1978)

The Dying Earth

1 - The Dying Earth (Mar-1977)
2 - Eyes of the Overworld (Feb-1977)
3 - Cugel's Saga (Nov-1984)
4 - Rhialto the Marvellous (Nov-1984)

Lyonesse

1 - Lyonesse (Apr-1983)
2 - The Green Pearl (Jun-1987)
3 - Madouc (Aug-1991)

Miro Hetzel

1 - The Dogtown Tourist Agency (Jun-2012)
2 - Freitzke's Turn (Jun-2012)

Planet of Adventure

1 - City of the Chasch (May-1979)
1 - Chasch: Tschai I (1986)
2 - Servants of the Wankh (Jun-1979)
2 - Wankh: Ischai II (Apr-1986)
3 - The Dirdir (Jul-1979)

Ports of Call

1 - Ports of Call (Apr-1998)
2 - Lurulu (Dec-2004)

Tschai

1 - The Chasch (Mar-2012)
2 - The Wannek (Mar-2012)

Book List in Order: 123 titles

  • The Languages of Pao

    • / Science Fiction
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    THE PANARCH OF PAO IS DEAD And Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father's death. It is at the secret fortress on the planet Breakness that Beran discovers the dreaded truth behind the assassination...

  • The Miracle-Workers

    in There Will Be War, Vol. III: Blood and Iron
    • / Science Fiction
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    From the fearless fighting men of inter-galactic space to the Spartan few who held the pass at Thermopylae. From the hardy starship troopers of futuristic mercenary frays to those last Roman centurions, holding back the barbaric hordes. From those ce...

  • The Dragon Masters

    • / Science Fiction
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    In THE DRAGON MASTERS, the first of ibooks definitive reissues of his work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the like of a boy born into and growing up in a statis, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventua...

  • Future Tense // Dust of Far Suns

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    In DUST OF FAR SUNS we have a treasure box of Vance varieties. Here are four novelettes, each displaying in delectable detail all the qualities that mark Vance's great novels. Alien societies, exotic peoples, far worlds, and the vast communion betwee...

  • Space Opera

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    A space opera is what science fiction readers call an adventure in outer space and on alien planets. But a space opera could also be an opera, a musical work, that originated in outer space.... Jack Vance's unique novel SPACE OPERA fits both defin...

  • Emphyrio

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    Halma ...where humans were ruled by a race of effete and arrogant Lords...where a feudalistic system banned all work by machines...where a "benevolent" welfare state rewarded talented hand labor with a barely adequate sustaining dole... Young Ghyl...

  • The Pnume

    His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the Dirdir, and the Wannek -- while the planet's original inhabitants, the mysterious Pnume, lurk under...

  • Son of the Tree // Houses of Iszm

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  • Trullion: Alastor 2262

    • / Science Fiction
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    Alastor - 1

    Trullion -- World 2262 of the Alastor Cluster -- was a beautiful waterworld of fens, mists, idyllic islands set in clear oceans whose teeming richness provided food for the taking. The Trill were a carefree, easy-living race. But violence enter...



  • Marune: Alastor 933

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    Alastor - 2

    From his palace on Numenes, the Connatic ruled the sprawling Alastor Cluster...and kept track of the doings of his trillion or more subjects. BO there was one man of whom he could learn nothing -- for the past life of the wanderer called Pardero was...

  • Maske: Thaery

    Jubal Droid seeks his fortune as a Thariot spy. Beautiful women and betrayal surround him when he risks his life to expose the respectable citizen who would devastate the planet Maske....

  • To Live Forever

    Waylock had been granted eternal life-but now he was killing on borrowed time.

    Gavin Waylock had waited seven years for the scandal surrounding his former immortal self to be forgotten and had kept his identity concealed so that he could onc...

  • Eyes of the Overworld

    The Dying Earth - 2

    INTO BLINDING MADNESS...OR VISIONS OF SPLENDOR! Such was the power of the priceless, magic eyes of the overworld that it could exalt their wearer to realms of wonder or plunge him into dark terror. Now Iucounu, the Laughing Magician, has dispat...

  • The Dying Earth

    The Dying Earth - 1

    They wait-in a dying world of mystical spells, occult curses, and demonic creatures of the night.... THE DYING EARTH They are Turjan, the scientist who struggles to create life ... T'sais, the enchantress from Embelyon, who journeys to Earth seek...

  • The Faceless Man

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    Durdane - 1

  • The Blue World

    Ballantine Del Rey, 1977. Science fiction adventure novel, based on Vance's earlier novella "The Kragen", which appeared in the July 1964 edition of Fantastic Stories of Imagination. This novel version was first published in 1966....

  • Star King

    The Demon Princes - 1

    Star Kings were a race of aliens who disguised themselves as human.They sought only power -- power over the real men and women they looked upon with both contempt and lust. Keith Gersen had been a peace-abiding man until the terrible moment when f...

  • Wyst: Alastor 1716

    Alastor - 3

    The trouble with Utopia is people. And this will remain true even in days to come, even in the Alastor Cluster of thirty thousand inhabited planets, whose sole protector of law was the mysterious person known as the Connatic. On the planet Wyst, N...

  • The Asutra

    Durdane

    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- for an implacable enemy intent on subjugating all the worlds of man. Gastel and his people ar...



  • The Palace of Love

    The Demon Princes - 3

    Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. After several false leads, Gersen backtracks the villain to his point of origin - Earth! Then the trail moves outward again, to the starworlds and a place back of beyond where there is a...

  • City of the Chasch

    Planet of Adventure - 1

    When someone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith''s misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate. Because when his ship came close to Tschai, it was torpedoed-and Adam escaped to the surface with his l...

  • Servants of the Wankh

    Planet of Adventure - 2

    Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.

    Monsters of land and sea lay before them, as well as beings both h...

  • The Dirdir

    Planet of Adventure - 3

    Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved either stealing a spaceship or having one built to order-for Tschai was home to several intelligent star-born races, and so they had spaceyards. But Adam Reith''s problem was not so simple.

    ...

  • The Face

    The Demon Princes - 4

    There had been five cosmic villains on Kirth Gersen's vengeance list. There were now just two left. The Demon Prince named Lens Larque was the one who next crossed Gersen's path. As each of the five planet-slayers were different from one another, ...

  • The Five Gold Bands

    Earth lacked the secret of the interstellar space drive. So when it turned out that the galaxy was chock full of wealthy planets and haughty aliens who had the star drive, it made our native world a backward place indeed. Paddy Blackthorn was an a...

  • The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph

    Magnus Ridolph, at first glance, did not look like an interstellar troubleshooter. He was not tall and muscular, his skin had not been turned to a rugged color of bronze by the numerous distant suns he had visited, and his voice and manner seemed far...

  • Nopalgarth // The Brains of Earth

    Heres a special treat for Jack Vance's legion of readers! Three complete novels, long unavailable, back in print in one book! NOPALGARTH The nopal came from outer space to take over the brains of humanity -- and it took the thinking of another se...

  • Galactic Effectuator

    "Galactic Effectuator" is an omnibus containing two of the famous detective "science fiction" stories written by the grandmaster of the genre, Jack Vance. This is a classic Vance: breathtaking adventures on colorful and dangerous planets, exotic cust...

  • The Narrow Land



  • Suldrun's Garden

    Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add fairies, ogres, changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten war...

  • Lyonesse

    Lyonesse - 1

    FAR AGO AND LONG AWAY.. Now lost forever beneath the rolling Atlantic, the Elder Isles were once lands of fairy shees and troll forests, of crones wise in lore and knights steeled in valor. In these isles lived a princess possessed of a wistful...

  • The Killing Machine

    The Demon Princes - 2

    The Killing Machine (Book 2 of 5 in Demon Princes series, Russian translation)Having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, Gersen now sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means killin...

  • The Book of Dreams

    The Demon Princes - 5

    THE LAST DEMON PRINCE HOWARD ALAN TREESONG gave a banquet to ten friends. All died in agony, save himself. HOWARD ALAN TREESONG went to his old school reunion to teach his former classmates the meaning of horror. HOWARD ALAN TREESONG was ...

  • Cugel's Saga

    The Dying Earth - 3

    Vance sees himself in the tradition of popular fantasy writers, but his classic writing style is also comparagle to Homer’s Odyssey, and Cervante's Don Quixote. Though the Cugel tales may lack the scope and pathos of the greatest adventure yarn...

  • Rhialto the Marvellous

    The Dying Earth - 4

    Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is hisThe Dying Earth series, fascinating, baroque tales s...

  • Last Castle

    For 700 years the Meks served without complaint; they were indispensable, for no gentleman would demean himself with toil. But now they turn against the strongholds of civilization -- Castle Halcyon, then Sea Island, Morninglight, and Maraval -- one ...

  • Chasch: Tschai I

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    Planet of Adventure - 1

  • Wankh: Ischai II

    Planet of Adventure - 2

  • The Green Pearl

    Lyonesse - 2

    In the second volume of the Lyonesse trilogy, new threads are woven into the epic tapestry begun in Suldrun's Garden. While war rages across the Elder Isles, King Aillas's true love, Glyneth, is carried off to a parallel world by an amoral magicia...



  • Brave Free Men

    Durdane - 2

    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 southern bogs to slaughter men, despoil women, and spread waves of terror....

  • Bird Isle // Take My Face

  • Green Magic

  • The Augmented Agent

  • Araminta Station

    Cadwal Chronicles - 1

    At the remote end of Mircea's Wisp, far out on the galaxy's Perseid Arm, is the Purple Rose System- containing the three stars Lorca, Sing and Syrene. Around Syrene swings the spectacular planet Cadwal, which the now defunct Naturalist Society of Ear...

  • Big Planet

    The objective of the mission from Earth: to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his empire on the Big Planet...and prevent the world from falling under this tyrant's domination. Then sabotage forces the craft to crash land, and t...

  • Showboat World

    On Big Planet, a world colonized by criminals and outcasts, Apollon Zamp sails showboats from port to port along the Vissell river and its tributaries. He constantly faces danger, not least from his arch-rival Garth Ashgale ....

  • Madouc

    Lyonesse - 3

    "The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit. Vexed, Kin...

  • Ecce and Old Earth

    The planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy. A thousand years past it was set aside as a natural preserve, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation. But there is a conspiracy to open the planet an...

  • The Gray Prince

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  • When the Five Moons Rise

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  • Planet of Adventure

    Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited--not only by warring alien cultures, but human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a w...

  • Throy

    Cadwal Chronicles - 3

    Although the Conservancy of Cadwal has a new Charter, various factions work against it to further their own interests, and Glawen Clattuc is commissioned by the governors of the planet to apprehend the conspirators. Reprint....

  • Nightlamp

  • Night Lamp

    Found as a child with no memory of his past, adopted by a scholarly couple who raised him as their own, Jaro never quiet fit into the rigidly defined Society of Thanet.

    When his foster parents are killed in a mysterious bombing, Jaro Fath se...

  • The Demon Princes

    Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today. The winner of a Hugo, a Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award, Vance lays claim to a career that spans more than five decades of critical acclaim and devoted...

  • The Face the Book of Dream

    Demon Princes

  • Ports of Call

    Ports of Call - 1

    Myron''s parents insisted that he study economics, and Myron dutifully applied himself. But Myron had an aunt--his great aunt Hester Lojoie, a woman of great wealth inherited from a dead husband, and even greater flamboyance of nature. And when D...

  • Tales of the Dying Earth

    The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun. Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy...

  • Cugel

    Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying ...

  • Mazirian the Magician:

    Jack Vance was one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying...

  • Alastor

    Here, collected in one volume, is his Alastor trilogy: three classic SF adventure novels that are Jack Vance at his best.

    Trullion: Alastor 2262 / Marune: Alastor 933 / Wyst: Alastor 1716

    The Alastor Cluster: A sprawling system of th...

  • Lurulu

    Ports of Call - 2

    Lurulu ist die unmittelbare Fortsetzung zu Kaleidoskop der Welten und Jack Vances Schwanengesang, wie er selbst gesagt hat. Myron Tany ist weiterhin mit dem Trampfrachter Glicca unterwegs von einem Hafen zum anderen, auf der Suche nach Abenteuern un...

  • The Kragen

    Subterranean Press is pleased to announce a small limited edition of the rare novella by Jack Vance that was eventually expanded into his novel Blue World.

    The Kragen has been out of print for nearly twenty years, with the exception of its app...

  • The Men Return and Others

    Five vintage stories from the 1950s by Science Fiction Grand Master, Jack Vance. SF stories of adventure, detection, horror, and humor. Stories include The Men Return; The Devil On Salvation Bluff; A Practical Man's Guide; Worlds of Origin; and the h...

  • Wild Thyme, Green Magic

    When Jack Vance decided to become a writer, a million-word-a-year man as he put it so pragmatically at the time, he also gave fantastic literature one of its most cherished and distinctive voices. Though primarily a novelist throughout his long and d...

  • The View from Chickweed's Window

    Orphan Luellen Enright is sent to live with her aunt and uncle's family in San Francisco. Lulu has trouble with her new family and eventually is sent to a state home. She returns as a young woman to regain her father’s legacy, and uncovers an ugly ...

  • Hard Luck Diggings

    A legend has to start somewhere... As so many writers have said, it's in the shorter and mid-length work that the storytelling craft is best learned. Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen such pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Mast...

  • Sjambak

    Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn -- until he found them all the hard way!...

  • Brain of the Galaxy

    Arthur Caversham of 22nd-century Boston finds himself naked at a dinner party. Bearwald the Halforn battles the Brands from Mount Medallion. Ceistan seeks a parchment in the dead city of Therlatch filled with treasure that is now worthless. Dobnor Da...

  • Dangerous Ways

    As well as being an inspirational, acclaimed and widely adored F&SF Grand Master and world-builder par excellence, Jack Vance has always been a mystery writer at heart. Even while ranging the starways and arcane dimensions under the name we best know...

  • Bad Ronald

    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 assaulted and dead. Ronald leaves his jacket at...

  • Bird Isle

    Coves has more land on Bird Island than he can use. So he sells, using proceeds to renovate his hotel. He's happy with his buyers until he finds that none are exactly what they said they were. And one- or more- is bent on trouble.Cover art by Howard ...

  • The Chasch

    Tschai - 1

    His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the Dirdir, and the Wannek -- while the planet's original inhabitants, the mysterious Pnume, lurk under...

  • The Dark Ocean

    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 departs San Francisco for Italy, via the Panama Canal. Passenge...

  • The Deadly Isles

    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 eventful voyage to the Marquesas.

    Luke mu...

  • Dream Castles

    Jack Vance, Magician Like the professional wizards and sorcerers he so often writes about, Jack Vance has long been a master magician when it comes to storytelling, turning out marvelous tricks with words, using his wonderful knack for names, detail...

  • The Flesh Mask

    San Giorgio High School athlete Robert Struve's face is disfigured by an accident. Humiliated at a party by four popular girls, he lashes out- and as a result is sent away to reform school. Struve receives reconstructive surgery which transforms his ...

  • The Fox Valley Murders

    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 he dared to come back.

    One man dies, and it loo...

  • The House on Lily Street

    Welfare worker Paul Gunther is killed when he looks into the blackmailing of some of his cases. Lieutenant George Shaw leads the murder investigation, which touches on the jazz community and beatnik culture of Oakland in the early 1960's....

  • The Man in the Cage

    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 to Tangier to search. Darrell soo...

  • The Pleasant Grove Murders

    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 mail carrier with a hammer. One of the wealthy families along Madr...

  • Strange People, Queer Notions

    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 out of town for a while; for Kex it’s a sport to sen...

  • The Wannek

    Tschai - 2

    His exploration ship blasted from orbit, Terran scout Adam Reith is stranded on Tschai, a world colonized by three alien species -- the Chasch, the Dirdir, and the Wannek -- while the planet's original inhabitants, the mysterious Pnume, lurk under...

  • Chateau d'If and Other Stories

    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 through the early-mid period of his career, spanning twen...

  • Golden Girl and Other Stories

    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 SFWA Grandmaster may be heard.

    Jean Parlier is the first of Vance’s stro...

  • The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet

    From Handbook of the Inhabited Worlds: "Big Planet lies beyond the frontier of terrestrial law, and has been settled by groups impatient with restraint: non-conformists, anarchists, fugitives, religious dissidents, misanthropes, deviants, freaks. Big...

  • The Moon Moth and Other Stories

    A collection of Vance's early stories, including The New Prime (1950), The Men Return (1955), Green Magic (1956), Ullward's Retreat (1957), Dodkin's Job (1958), The Moon Moth (1960), Alfred's Ark (1964), Sulwen's Planet (1966), and Rumfuddle (1972).C...

  • Sail 25 and Other Stories

    This collection of early work contains thirteen stories written during Jack Vance’s apprenticeship in the pulp magazine era of the late 40s and early 50s, including:

    The Potters of Firsk (1950), where wondrous artifacts are crafted using l...

  • Wild Thyme and Violets and Other Unpublished Works

    A collection of Vance's outlines, unpublished work, and other items: Cat Island (1946, fragment), The Stark (1954, outline for series), The Telephone was Ringing in the Dark (1962, outline for novel), The Kragen (1963, novella; first version of The B...

  • The World-Thinker and Other Stories

    POD 01 The World-Thinker and Other Stories

    This volume might have been titled "The Early Jack Vance", as it features stories from the first dozen years of Vance’s career, when his major outlet was pulp magazines. In these stories, Vance already d...

  • The Anome

    The minstrel Gastel Etzwane lives in Shant -- a country of cantons, each independently dictating its own law and customs. The enforcement of law is simple, quick, and inevitable: death by decapitation, from an explosive torc clamped around each ci...

  • The Domains of Koryphon

    The Domains of Koryphon (The Gray Prince, Russian translation) The races of Koryphon keep an uneasy peace -- the swift, nomadic Wind-runners, the fierce Uldras, and the aristocratic Outkers. For over two hundred years the Outkers have occupi...

  • The Houses of Iszm

    The people of Iszm live in homes which are alive. Their dwellings are elaborate, hollow trees, wherein the very walls, floors- even furniture and plumbing- are all part of a living plant. For decades, inhabitants of other worlds, including Earth, hav...

  • The Moon Moth

    A classic science fiction tale finds new life in this graphic novel adaptation. A fascinating blend of murder mystery and high-concept science fiction, The Moon Moth has long been hailed as one of Jack Vance’s greatest works. And now this intric...

  • The Rapparee

    The galaxy is full of wealthy planets and haughty aliens who guard the technology of interstellar travel. Earth must pay a price for use of the space drive, and this rubs Paddy Blackthorn the wrong way- so he sets out to steal the secret. The powerfu...

  • The Dogtown Tourist Agency

    Miro Hetzel - 1

    Gentleman detective Miro Hetzel takes on a case for an industrialist client, taking him to the dangerous planet Maz -- whose natives are so fierce they'll fight three battles before lunch, then dine on the enemy!Cover art by Jared Pullen...

  • Freitzke's Turn

    Miro Hetzel - 2

  • Gold and Iron

    Relatives of mankind, the benevolent Lekthwan come to Earth, sharing knowledge and superior technology.

    Headstrong Roy Barch feels pangs of inferiority -- particularly in the intellectual company of golden-skinned Komeitk Lelianr.

    The...

  • Magnus Ridolph

    With his silver hair, neat goatee and fastidious habits, elderly mathematician Magnus Ridolph doesn’t look like the mercenary detective, troubleshooter and rascal that he is.

    In these ten stories, Magnus Ridolph accepts a variety of baffli...

  • Son of the Tree

    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.

    Son of the Tree "...

  • Vandals of the Void

    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 hulk of a spaceship hanging in space, blasted ...

  • The Lost Valley

  • Clarges

    In the far-future city of Clarges, you can live forever"if you can make the grade. In Clarges, everyone competes for the ultimate prize of immortality. Gavin Waylock lost the live-forever rank of Amaranth when he was accused of murder; now, afte...

  • Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight

    For the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel the Clever to the farthest reaches of The Dying Earth. Beset by thieves and schemers whose cunning almost equals his own, Jack Vances most incorrigible rogue must fight the long wa...

  • Desperate Days

    Being there... Jack Vance has long been F&SF's grand master of regional science fiction, creating living, breathing locales on distant worlds or on our own fabulously transformed, often magical future Earth that are second to none. But at the s...

  • Miro Hetzel

    In Miro Hetzel finden sich zwei Geschichten um den galaktischen Effektuator Miro Hetzel: „Das Touristenbüro von Hundsheim“ „Die Nächste bitte!“ Auszug aus einer der Geschichten: Das Antlitz Conwit Clents erschien beinahe sofort auf dem ...

  • Tschai

    The four Planet of Adventure volumes chronicle Adam Reith's saga on the planet Tschai, under the amber glow of the star Carina 4269. Reith is a Terran first-in scout stranded on a planet which he learns is now occupied, after an ancient struggle whic...

  • The Cadwal Chronicles

    The Cadwal Chronicles, Russian translation. All three books in one volume At the remote end of Mircea's Wisp, far out on the galaxy's Perseid Arm, is the Purple Rose System, containing the three stars Lorca, Sing and Syrene. Around Syrene swin...

  • The Laughing Magician

    "The Laughing Magician combines two of the most popular novels in Jack Vance's "Dying Earth series. Both recount the adventures of Cugel, also called Cugel the Clever, forced by a mordant magician into a quest across an Earth of the far distant futur...

  • Dodkin's Job

    It may be that somebody will be entertained by the account of this happy fiasco. It might amuse a friend or an enemy to read how I gradually learnt from the truth of some stray legend or from the falsehood of some dominant philosophy, things that I m...

  • Magic Highways

    The Ultimate Grandeur Fantasy and Science Fiction Grandmaster Jack Vance is very much a writer of the Space Age. His time 'traveling' the magic highways of his imagination spans the period bracketed by the final years of World War 2 and the Cassin...

  • Jack Vance SF Gateway Omnibus

    From the SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic science fiction and fantasy titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to the fantastic work of Jack Vance, one of the field's most beloved authors.Highly acclaimed...

  • The Jack Vance Treasury

    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. From his first publishe...

  • Science Fiction Gems, Volume Seven, Jack Vance and others

    Armchair Fiction presents extra large paperback collections of the best in classic science fiction short stories. Here it is…our seventh collection of Science Fiction Gems. You will find a variety of thought-provoking speculative tales, penned by s...

  • The Wankh

    The Wankh (Book 2 of 4 in Tschai series, Russian translation) After crashing on Tschai, Adam Reith's scout ship is impossibly damaged. Reith must find another vessel to return to Earth. Having rescued the beautiful Ylin-Ylan, Reith is assured ...

  • Grand Crusades

    Avenues into the Future... ''Truth to tell, we're tourists, out to see the wonders of the universe.'' --Paddy Blackthorn, The Rapparee Grand journeys among the stars--pursuits, quests, explorations and encounters. These were very much science ...

  • The Dragon Masters and Other Stories

    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 Dragon Masters,” H...

  • Cugel the Clever

    Earth is a decadent world older than memory, the bloated red sun soon to wink out forever. Thief, vagabond, liar and cheat, hapless Cugel the Clever goes too far when he seeks to rob Iucounu, the Laughing Magician. Transported across the sea to a ...

  • Miro Hetzel, Effectuator

    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 goes beyond fact-finding, to produce changes in...

  • Nightlamp, an Outline

    The Vance Integral Edition made extensive use of the personal papers of Jack Vance, in particular his final manuscripts, as these contained Vance’s last word regarding the work as he intended it.

    However, in the years since the VIE conclud...

  • Son of the Tree and The Houses of Iszm

    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. Son of the Tree - Joe, a you...

  • Lily Street

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    Paul Gunther est un jeune homme branché. Grand amateur de jazz, de jolies filles, de belles voitures et de bon whisky, il fréquente assidûment les soirées où se retrouvent beatniks, musiciens, artistes et étud...

  • A Short, Sharp Shock

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Award-Winning Books by Jack Vance

The Dragon Masters
1963 Hugo Award -- Short Story
Lyonesse
1990 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jack Vance has published 123 books.

Jack Vance does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Son of the Tree and The Houses of Iszm, was published in May 2019.

The first book by Jack Vance, The Languages of Pao, was published in January 1958.

Yes. Jack Vance has 11 series.
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