I read with great zeal the works of Asimov and Heinlein. But my favorite was always the works of the late great Jack Vance. I am re-reading the Caldwal trilogy. Science Fiction at it’s best but also literature .[icopyright one button toolbar]
[Ed note: A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as “one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices”. He died at his home in Oakland, California on May 26, 2013, aged 96.
Autobiography: This Is Me, Jack Vance! (Subterranean Press, 2009) (won the 2010 Hugo Award, Best Related Book)]
Other Sci Fi books by Vance
The Dying Earth[edit]
Main article: Dying Earth series
The Dying Earth (author’s preferred title: Mazirian the Magician, collection of linked stories, 1950)
The Eyes of the Overworld (author’s preferred title: Cugel the Clever, novel 1966)
Cugel’s Saga (author’s preferred title: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight, novel, 1983)
The Laughing Magician (Omnibus containing The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel’s Saga, 2007)
Rhialto the Marvellous (collection of linked stories, 1984)
Lyonesse[edit]
Main article: Lyonesse Trilogy
Lyonesse: Suldrun’s Garden (1983) (also titled Lyonesse and Suldrun’s Garden)
Lyonesse: The Green Pearl (1985) (also titled The Green Pearl)
Lyonesse: Madouc (1989) (also titled Madouc)
Science fiction[edit]
The Demon Princes Series[edit]
Main article: Demon Princes
The Star King (1964)
The Killing Machine (1964)
The Palace of Love (1967)
The Face (1979)
The Book of Dreams (1981)
The Cadwal Chronicles[edit]
Main article: Cadwal Chronicles
Araminta Station (1987)
Ecce and Old Earth (1991)
Throy (1992)
Alastor[edit]
Main article: Alastor Cluster
Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
Marune: Alastor 933 (1975)
Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)
Durdane[edit]
Main article: Durdane series
The Anome (alternate title: The Faceless Man, 1973)
The Brave Free Men (1973)
The Asutra (1974)
Tschai[edit]
Main article: Planet of Adventure
City of the Chasch (author’s preferred title: The Chasch. 1968)
Servants of the Wankh (reissue title: The Wannek, 1969)
The Dirdir (1969)
The Pnume (1970)
The image of Jack Vance picture was taken by en:David M. Alexander in the early 1980s on Jack Vance’s boat in San Francisco Bay. Public domain, as noted.