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John Holbrook Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy, and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance, he also wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen .
Jack Vance Website - The Official Website of Jack Vance, Grandmaster of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Home of e-books and information.
Jack (John Holbrook) Vance (San Francisco, August 28, 1916 - Oakland, May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction author. Most of his work has been published under the name Jack Vance. Vance has published 11 mysteries as John Holbrook Vance and 3 as Ellery Queen.
Complete order of Jack Vance books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
May 26, 2013 · The author was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to science fiction and fantasy magazines. His first novel, The Dying Earth , was published in 1950 to great acclaim.
May 29, 2013 · Jack Vance, who has died aged 96, was a writer of science fiction and high epic fantasy whose work was oddly at variance with the journeyman genre in which it first appeared.
Jack Vance has 821 books on Goodreads with 214475 ratings. Jack Vance’s most popular book is The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1).
Jack Vance has 821 books on Goodreads with 214689 ratings. Jack Vance's most popular series is The Dying Earth.
The Vance Integral Edition project, successfully concluded in 2006, gathered and restored the work of Jack Vance in a 44 volume edition. The all-volunteer project broke new ground in textual restoration methodology and internet use, coordinating the efforts of hundreds of volunteers world-wide.
Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have been called picaresque. They vary from short story collections to a fix-up (novel created from older short stories), perhaps all the way to novel.
