Jack Vance -- Recent and Upcoming Books

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The Laughing Magician
Jack Vance(Illustrator) / Hardcover / Expected May 2000
Price: $75.00 Not Yet Published

Recent

Ports of Call
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published March 1999
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"Galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller." --Kirkus Reviews "Classic space opera is alive and kicking in this latest interstellar spree from Vance....This jaunty, politically incorrect tale provides first-rate escapist entertainment." --Publishers Weekly "Ports of Call is a picaresque adventure which begins very much in the style of Wodehousian comedy of manners; these mannerly, sometimes decidedly quirky, individuals just happen to own (or long for) yachts that flit through space and hop from planet to planet in the course of their journeys to many ports....Authorial ma...

Ports of Call
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published April 1998
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Jack Vance, an undisputed king of science fiction, outdoes himself in this space exploration novel. Myron Tany has been given command of a space yacht by his crazy aunt Hester, giving him the perfect chance to live out his childhood fantasies of intergalactic adventure, alien encounters and exotic romance. Set in Vance's Gaean Reach universe, Ports of Call is a veritable catalog of adventures, replete with richly-detailed encounters and characters worthy of the series that will no doubt follow this book. This is a light, often comedic space adventure that suffers only a bit from a meandering p...

Night Lamp
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published March 1998
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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 .

Demon Princes (Volume Two)
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published September 1997
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"The Face" and "The Book of Dreams" are the final two books in the classic Demon Prince series from one of science fiction's master storytellers. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. To Kirth Gersen, however, they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet. Three have already fallen at Kirth's hand--but there are two more Princes to go.

The Demon Prices (Instructor's Manual)
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published September 1997
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
"The Face" and "The Book of Dreams" are the final two books in the classic Demon Prince series from one of science fiction's master storytellers. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. To Kirth Gersen, however, they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet. Three have already fallen at Kirth's hand--but there are two more Princes to go.

The Demon Princes : The Face and the Book of Dreams
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published September 1997
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"The Face" and "The Book of Dreams" are the final two books in the classic Demon Prince series from one of science fiction's master storytellers. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. To Kirth Gersen, however, they are merely murderers who killed his family and destroyed his home planet. Three have already fallen at Kirth's hand--but there are two more Princes to go.

The Demon Princes : The Star King, the Killing Machine, the Palace of Love
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published June 1997
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Jack Vance excels at writing a series of shorter works that together comprise a grand, interstellar adventure. Such is the The Demon Princes, a series of five tales that chronicle Kirth Gersen's quest for vengeance against the five demon princes. The princes led the Mount Pleasant Massacre, a raid that destroyed Gersen's family and his world. But now Kirth is on their trail, and no matter how many galaxies there are to search, he will find them one by one and exact his revenge. This first volume collects three of the five Demon Prince stories, while the second volume will carry the remaining t...

The Demon Princes : The Star King, the Killing Machine, the Palace of Love (Demon Prince Series , Vol 1)
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published June 1997
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Together in one volume--three novels from the classic Demon Princes series. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction. The affairs of mere mortals mean little to them and their actions spell doom for millions. Keith Gersen is not a Demon Prince, but he's got a stake in finding five of them--the five who massacred his family and obliterated his planet.

Night Lamp
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published October 1996
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The always-enigmatic and masterful Jack Vance shows he hasn't lost a step as he tells the story of Jaro, a young child brutally beaten by a gang of ruffians. Jaro is saved by a pair of visiting academics -- Hilyer and Altheah Fath -- but doctors were forced to remove much of his memory to prevent psychological trauma. The Faths adopt the homeless, friendless Jaro and take him back to their homeworld, Gallingale. But as Jaro comes of age in his new life, he is constantly haunted by the mystery of his past, a mystery he is bent on solving.

The Jack Vance Lexicon : The Coined Words of Jack Vance from Ahulph to Zipangote (Borgo Literary Guides, No. 2)
Jack Vance, Dan Temianka / Paperback / Published March 1995
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

The Jack Vance Lexicon : The Coined Words of Jack Vance from Ahulph to Zipangote (Borgo Literary Guides, No 2)
Jack Vance, Dan Temianka (Editor) / Hardcover / Published March 1995
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Throy (The Cadwal Chronicle, Book 3)
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published May 1994
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
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. PW. AB.

Planet of Adventure : City of the Chasch/Servants of the Wankh/the Dirdir/the Pnume/4 Books in 1 Volume
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published October 1993
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To Live Forever
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published May 1993
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Seven years after the scandal that revoked his privilege as an Immortal, Garven Waylock, armed with a new identity, attempts to rejoin the rest of the Immortals. Reprint.

The Five Gold Bands
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published April 1993
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
The first hardback edition of Vance's 1950 short novel--a space opera wherein picaresque adventurer Paddy Blackthorne and his Earth cop-sidekick Fay Bursill team up to search for an important secret (how to manufacture a space drive) that, for safekeeping, has been divided into five parts and concealed at different locations. Each of the five gold bands of the title contains a cryptic clue to the whereabouts of a hidden part. Amply displayed here are the young Vance's cardinal virtues, along with the usual flaws: a lively assortment of alien beings, a variety of exotic settings, strong charact...

Dragon Masters
Jack Vance / Hardcover / Published March 1993
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Ecce and Old Earth
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published September 1992
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Glawen Clattuc, scion of one of the scientific houses of Cadwal, must discover which humans are sabotaging his planet, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation. Reprint.

The Gray Prince
Jack Vance / Mass Market Paperback / Published May 1992
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
With the guidance of the Gray Prince, the fierce Uldrans prepare to reclaim their rule over the planet Koryphon, seizing power from the hands of the aristocratic Outkers. Original.

The Languages of Pao
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published April 1989
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Araminta Station (Cadwal Chronicles, Book No. 1)
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published March 1989
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Green Magic
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published August 1988
(Publisher Out Of Stock)

Galactic Effectuator
Jack Vance / Paperback / Published October 1981
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Star King (Demon Prince Series Book 1)
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Strange Notions and the Dark Ocean
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Gold and Iron
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Space Opera
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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The Complete Magnus Ridolph
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Wyst : Alastor 1716
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Marune : Alastor 993
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Trullion : Alastor 2262
Jack Vance / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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