Aka John Holbrook Vance, Peter Held, John Holbrook, Ellery Queen, John van See, Alan Wade. 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. He won both of science fiction's most coveted trophies, the Hugo and Nebula awards. He also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel The Man in the Cage . He lived in Oakland, California in a house he designed.
Series
Books
Grand Crusades
The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five
2015
The Book of Dreams
1981
Big Planet
1952
Marune
Alastor 933
1975
Chateau d'If and Other Stories
2005
The Jack Vance Treasury
2007
Servants of the Wankh
1969
The Men Return and Others
2009
Maske
Thaery
1976
The Asutra
1973
Nopalgarth
1980
Madouc
1989
Morreion
A Tale of The Dying Earth
1978
The Potter of Firsk and Other Stories
2011
The World-Thinker and Other Stories
2002
The Faceless Man
1971
The Pnume
1969
Kroniki Umierającej Ziemi
1998
Wild Thyme, Green Magic
2009
The Dragon Masters
1962
The House of Iszm and Other Stories
2011
Trullion
Alastor 2262
1973
Dangerous Ways
2011
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
Son of the Tree
1951
The Face
1979
The Dying Earth
1950
The Blue World
1966
Night Lamp
1996
The Moon Moth and Other Stories
2011
This is Me, Jack Vance!
2009
The Miracle Workers
1958
Green Magic
1963
The Gift of Gab
1955
The Last Castle
1966
Showboat World
1975
Slaves of the Klau
1952
The Last Castle/Nightwings
1989
Ports of Call
1997
Vandals of the Void
1953
The Jack Vance Lexicon
The coined words of Jack Vance: from abiloid to zygage
1983
American Science Fiction
Four Classic Novels 1968-1969 (LOA #322)
2019
Green Magic
The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance
1979
The Man in the Cage
1960
The Green Pearl
1985
Emphyrio
1969
The Star King
1964
Strange People, Queer Notions
1958
Dream Castles
The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two
2012
Hard-Luck Diggings
The Early Jack Vance
2010
Lurulu
2004
Monsters in orbit
1965
The Eyes of the Overworld
1966
Rhialto the Marvellous
1984
The Worlds of Jack Vance
1973
Freitzke's Turn
1977
City of the Chasch
1968
The Brains of Earth
1966
Dust of Far Suns
1964
The Dogtown Tourist Agency
1975
Ecce and Old Earth
1991
The Houses of Iszm
1954
Bad Ronald
1973
The Languages of Pao
1957
To Live Forever
1956
Take my face
1957
Sjambak
1953
The Moon Moth
1953
Wyst
Alastor 1716
1978
Suldrun's Garden
1983
The Complete Lyonesse
2010
The Dark Side of the Moon
1986
The Brave Free Men
1973
Magic Highways
The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three
2013
The Gray Prince
1974
Golden Girl and Other Stories
1951
Throy
1992
Space Opera
1965
When the Five Moons Rise
1954
The Killing Machine
1964
The Dirdir
1969
Fantasms and Magics
1969
The Best of Jack Vance
1976
The Miracle Workers ; The Dragon Masters ; The Last Castle
2002
