Jack Vance - Libros y biografía

Tschai IV Die Pnume sind die auf Tschai Einheimischen. Sie leben unter der Erde in einem riesigen Höhlensystem, haben ihre Augen und verlängerten Arme überall auf der Oberfläche und verfolgen ganz eigene...

Tschai II Nachdem Adam Reith Freundschaft mit dem Emblemmenschen Traz Onmale und dem Dirdirmann Ankhe at afram Anacho geschlossen und es mit den Khasch und den Khaschmenschen zu tun bekommen hat, konnte...

Fantascienza - racconti (298 pagine) - Tredici racconti rari e inediti, brillanti e arguti, dissacratori e divertenti, del grande Jack VanceSette quadri sulla parete illustrano altrettanti strani universi....

Fantascienza - romanzo (259 pagine) - Paesaggi mozzafiato, personaggi intriganti e tutto il corredo di avventure che ci si aspetta dal miglior Jack Vance, autore dei Lyonesse e di Durdane. Laggiù, verso...

The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin: The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting its...

The Potters of Firsk includes the majority of Vance's 'Magnus Ridolph' stories, previously collected in The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph. In the VIE edition this book is titled Gadget Stories.Contents:...

There is a Hole at the eastern fringe of the known universe. Deep within it hangs a lost star, Mora, with twin planets, Maske and Skay. On wild Maske there is a rocky peninsula inhabited by a clan of...

Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe. Monsters of land and sea lay before...

A collection of some of Jack Vance's best short fiction, containing:Golden GirlMasquerade on DicantropusAbercrombie StationCholwell's ChickensThe MitrThe World BetweenWhen the Five Moons RiseMeet Miss...

In the midpoint novel of the "Demon Princes" series, Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. Vance describes this murderous creature as a "sybarite." "Sadistic pervert" would probably...

The second of the three 'Alastor' novels, a typical Vance story of a man who has lost his memory and is sent to the world Marune in the Alastor Cluster, which is believed to be his home. Once he has recovered...

This sequel to "Araminta Station", features the character of Glawen Clattuc, who helped save the unique planet Cadwal. The charter that granted Cadwal conservation has disappeared - and Glawen and Wayness...

Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying Earth,...

Trullion - World 2262 of the Alastor Cluster - was a beautiful waterworld of fens, mists, idyllic islands set in clear oceans whose teeming richness provided food for the taking. The Trill were a carefree,...

The city of Clarges is a near-utopia, surrounded by barbarism throughout the rest of the world. Abundant resources and the absence of political conflict lead to a pleasant life that should be stress-free....

The Panarch of Pao is dead and Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father's death. It is at the secret fortress on the planet Breakness that Beran discovers...

The fantastic quests and adventures of Cugel: the greatest rogue in the realms of fantasy. For the second time, Cugel the Clever has been carried north over the Ocean of Sighs and dumped half a world...

Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order - for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had spaceyards....

Book four in the series which relate the story of Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery during...

Travel out along the galaxy's Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea's Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System - three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that...

The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise...

A space opera is what science fiction readers call an adventure in outer space and on alien planets. But a space opera could also be an opera, a musical work, that originated in outer space...Jack Vance's...

The inhabitants of a planet called Iszm, a species known as the Iszic, have evolved the native giant trees into living homes, with all needs and various luxuries supplied by the trees' own natural growth....

Tschai, the setting for the quartet of novels which commences with The Chasch (originally City of the Chasch), is a planet inhabited by a variety of alien species coexisting uneasily with humans - the...

Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge...

When an out-worlder's body was found in the river, Thissel knew where the criminal was - behind one of the masks worn by the remaining out-worlders on Sirene. But how could he tell which one, on a world...

Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture. Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they...

Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in the language...

Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and...

This volume includes Vance's first published story ("The World-Thinker") and a selection of other stories including the novella "Telek".Contents: The World-Thinker, Dream Castle ("I'll Build Your Dream...