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Jack Vance
Een nieuwsbericht over de aanstaande executie van Meester-Gifmenger Kakarsis Asm is voor Kirth Gersen het startpunt van de jacht op Duivelsprins Viole Falushe. Van Sarkovy, waar uit de meest onschuldige…
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Originally published in 1983 by Berkley Books. First published in this edition in 2002 by Vance Integral Edition.
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…
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…
Nadat de mensheid bijna ten onder is gegaan aan overbevolking, hongersnood en plundering, is Clarges de laatste grote metropool op Aarde: een uitgestrekte, eeuwenoude miljoenenstad, hermetisch afgesloten voor de barbaarse…
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…
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…
Charmants Voisins: Quel bonheur d'habiter dans Madrone Way, une petite rue chic dans la banlieue de Pleasant Grove, avec ses belles maisons entourees de verdure… Mais comme toujours, le probleme…
Gravement brule dans un accident de scooter, le jeune Robert Struve est affreusement defigure. Faute d'argent, il doit se resigner a etre un monstre dans la societe, expose aux humiliations…
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…
In het jaar 1499 van de Oikoumene overvielen vijf aartscriminelen - de even excentrieke als dodelijke Duivelsprinsen - de stad Fraaibergen. Ze voerden de meeste inwoners in slavernij weg naar…
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…
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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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…
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…
Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter - and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to…
Thirty thousand years after humanity first expanded from Earth, Koryphon has seen waves of Gaean immigration. Each population took separate lands for themselves, settling among species considered native to the…
Situee dans la baie de San Francisco au large de Monterey, l'Ile aux Oiseaux est un endroit idyllique avec ses plages, ses criques, ses collines rocheuses et son vieil hotel…
This second volume of the Backstage series completes the publication of the author’s outlines for his last four novels.
The outline for Ecce and Old Earth is the briefest, yet…
Originally published: New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Zestien jaar geleden werd het slaperige Californische dorpje Marblestone opgeschrikt door de brutale moord op de jonge Tissie McAllister. De sociaal onhandige Ausley Wyett houdt zijn onschuld vol, maar heeft…
Wanneer hij een mysterieuze opdracht aanneemt voor de IPCC, komt Kirth Gersen bij toeval oog in oog te staan met Kokor Hekkus, de grillige Duivelsprins die bekend staat als ‘de…
In the third volume of the Cadwell Chronicles , Glawen Clattuc and his beloved Wayness Tamm continue their battle to safeguard their beautiful planet. The author’s most recent novels include…
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…
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…
Originally published in 1987 by Ace Books. First published in this edition in 2002 by Vance Integral Edition.
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…
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…
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…
Jack Vance’s early work contains the same elements of originality, wit and style which would become hallmarks of his oeuvre. This collection centers on productive years which began in the…
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…
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…
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…
Een schriel mannetje op leeftijd met witte haren, een zorgvuldig gecultiveerde sik en fattige maniertjes: niet het voorkomen dat je zou verwachten van een interstellaire speurneus, befaamd wiskundige, beruchte schelm…
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…
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…
A novel of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed
Il pianeta Cadwal e un paradiso ecologico, protetto e amministrato dalla Societa Naturalistica. Ma c'e chi vorrebbe aprirlo al commercio e sfruttarne le risorse: una cospirazione alla quale si oppone…
New galaxy-hopping, picaresque adventure from a master storyteller.
All four books in The Dying Earth science fiction series are now available in single volume.
