Books in series
#1
Hard Luck Diggings
1948
#2
Sanatoris Short-Cut
1948
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in the magazine Startling Stories in 1948.
#3
The Unspeakable McInch
1948
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in the magazine Startling Stories in 1948. Later reprinted in the collection The Complete Magnus Ridolph and in Magic Highways.
#4
The Sub-Standard Sardines
1949
A short story by Jack Vance, featuring Magnus Ridoplh, first published in 1949. Later reprinted in The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridoph and The Complete Magnus Ridolph.
#5
The King of Thieves
1949
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in 1949 in the magazine Startling Stories. Later reprinted in the collection The Complete Magnus Ridolph and also in Magic Highways, The Early Jack Vance Volume Three.
#7
Cosmic Hotfoot
1950
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Startling Stories magazine in 1950 with the title "Cosmic Hotfoot". Later republished as "To B or Not to C or to D"
#8
The Spa of the Stars
1950
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Startling Stories magazine in 1950. Later reprinted in The Complete Magnus Ridoph and also in Magic Highways.
#9
The Kokod Warriors
2025
A short story by Jack Vance, featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952.
#10
Coup de Grace
1958
A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in 1958 in the magazine Super Science Fiction with the title "Worlds of Origin".
#2-10
The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph
1966
Magnus Ridolph, at first glance, did not look like an interstellar troubleshooter. He was not tall and muscular, his skin had not been turned to a rugged color by the numerous distant suns he had visited, and his voice and manner seemed far too mild for an adventurer. Yet there was a chill hardness in his mild blue eyes that warned of the deceptiveness in his appearance.
Throughout the galaxy, there were men and other beings - Yellowbirds, Tau Gemini ant-things, Hecatian anthropes - who could testify to the deadliness that lurked behind those eyes.
In Magnus Ridolph, Jack Vance has created one of the most memorable characters of his award-winning career.
Author
Jack Vance
Author · 103 books
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.
