Calibandar Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Found this wonderful intefview with Vance: http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue266/interview.html he's so down-to-earth it cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multaniette Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Vance wrote, It would be so simple if I could bring myself to say science fiction, which I can't because I detest the field. I don't like the people in it. Not the writers, but the fans. The young fans and some of their adolescent attitudes of going to conventions in funny clothes and being Star Trek-ians and getting all these strange societies up. I think I don't want to be associated with those people. There are a lot of people, well, up in Seattle [at NorwesCon] I met a number of them, extremely nice people who are bright, intelligent. Hahaha this man is brilliant - great great interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted September 10, 2006 Share Posted September 10, 2006 Vance is definitely too old to put up with bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thiazyl Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Well, I finally finished The Face and The Book of Dreams over the holidays. Classic Vance style. Enjoyed both of them. If I had to rank the five stories it would look like: 1. The Killing Machine 2. The Face 3. The Book of Dreams 4. The Star King 5. The Palace of Love Currently I'm going to take a break from Vance but look forward to reading the Lyonesse trilogy next. My only wish is that my to read list wasn't so big so that I could go back and reread these stories. Now that I know the stories, I could pay special attention to Vance's word and style. I know that nothing is stopping me from rereading them but there is this unstoppable force that drives me to read new stuff. Perhaps in the near future. Looking forward to getting my Jack Vance Treasury. More books for the pile. thiazyl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Probably Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 His Moon Moth novella is one of the greatest ever written. A totally alien culture, music, slaves, betrayal and murder... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 His Moon Moth novella is one of the greatest ever written. A totally alien culture, music, slaves, betrayal and murder... It's out pf print and absurdly expensive for a secondhand copy though. However it will be republished in the Jack Vance treasury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Seriously? I picked it up a few years ago for a just one or two dollars in a roadside secondhand bookshop in Nova Scotia, where they had dozens of old Vance paperbacks. Pretty much every single secondhand bookshop I visited in Canada & the US had loads of cheap Vance books in. Someone living over there could make a mint, or possibly just flood the market and bring the price down a bit for us poor Europeans... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Probably Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Yeah, every used bookstore I've gone to has Vance books, but they're so old, tattered and, well, piss-stained stinky that I couldn't bring myself to buy them, Vances as they were. Did he even get some of his books published in hardcover? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 I doubt it, tbh, though I don't know for certain - most of his stuff is pulp SF, and a lot of them were even published in that back-to-back format that never gets used these days, so I really doubt his publishers at the time would have splashed out on producing hardbacks. The only Vance hardbacks I have are Lurulu and the one he wrote as Ellery Queen (A Room To Die In). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Does anyone plan to buy the Jack Vance Treasury? http://www.amazon.com/Jack-Vance-Treasury-...TF8&s=books Glowing reviews from scifi.com and sfsite as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I certainly do. I've read a number of the pieces in it already, but there's some gems I haven't had the pleasure of yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaceBannon42 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Well of course I plan on buying it...I'm not a barbarian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stego Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Well of course I plan on buying it...I'm not a barbarian. *nods in agreement* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 I was expecting this to be a massively, high-priced limited edition, and was pleasently surprised to see how affordable it is. I may plump for this if it appears on Amazon.co.uk (it's listed, but no price as yet). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The folks at Subterrenean press are saying that the regular harcover of the JVT will be shipped within the next two weeks, with the limited edition to follow a month later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 A long 1976 interview with Jack Vance has been posted on Youtube in twelve parts: The man remains witty and intelligent in my opinion. I've only seen the first one sofar but already I agree wholeheartedly with his idea that for the sake of the reader's suspension of disbelief, the author should stay out of publicity or keep a low profile, since by coming into publicity the author basically puts his face between that and the secondary world . I think this has merit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThRiNiDiR Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Announcing SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH — the Jack Vance Tribute Anthology! (link) Today, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and impact, George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, with the full cooperation of Jack Vance, his family, and his agents, suggest a Jack Vance tribute anthology called Songs of the Dying Earth, to encourage the best of today’s fantasy writers to return to the unique and evocative milieu of The Dying Earth, from which they and so many others have drawn so much inspiration, to create their own brand-new adventures in the world of Jack Vance’s greatest novel. Authors — stories in hand: * Robert Silverberg * Terry Dowling * Glen Cook * Tanith Lee * Liz Williams * Kage Baker * Elizabeth Moon Authors — slated to contribute: * Neil Gaiman * Dan Simmons * Elizabeth Hand * Matt Hughes * Mike Resnick * Phyllis Eisenstein * Paula Volsky * Howard Waldrop * Tad Williams * Walter Jon Williams * John C. Wright * Lucius Shepard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 That's an awful lot of people to hunt down. I'm a busy man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peadar Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 @Thrinidir: Sounds like a must-buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 I actually have sent them a mail asking about whether GRRM is contributing a story or not. He originally said that he was doing so. Plans may have changed, but I hope not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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