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John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (August 28, 1916 – May 26, 2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See, and Jay Kavanse.
Vance won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984 and he was a Guest of Honor at the 1992 World Science Fiction Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America made him its 14th Grand Master in 1997 and the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers.
Among his awards for particular works were: Hugo Awards, in 1963 for The Dragon Masters, in 1967 for The Last Castle, and in 2010 for his memoir This is Me, Jack Vance!; a Nebula Award in 1966, also for The Last Castle; the Jupiter Award in 1975; the World Fantasy Award in 1990 for Lyonesse: Madouc. He also won an Edgar (the mystery equivalent of the Nebula) for the best first mystery novel in 1961 for The Man in the Cage.
A 2009 profile in The New York Times Magazine described Vance as "one of American literature’s most distinctive and undervalued voices." He died at his home in Oakland, California, May 26, 2013, aged 96.
Vance's grandfather supposedly arrived in California from Michigan a decade before the Gold Rush and married a San Francisco girl. (Early family records were apparently destroyed in the fire following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.) Vance's early childhood was spent in San Francisco. With the early separation of his parents, Vance's mother moved young Vance and his siblings to Vance's maternal grandfather's California ranch near Oakley in the delta of the Sacramento River. This early setting formed Vance's love of the outdoors, and allowed him time to indulge his passion as an avid reader. With the death of his grandfather, the Vance's family fortune nosedived, and Vance was forced to leave junior college and work to support himself, assisting his mother when able. Vance plied many trades for short stretches: as a bell-hop (a "miserable year" , in a cannery, and on a gold dredge, before entering the University of California, Berkeley where, over a six-year period, he studied mining engineering, physics, journalism and English. Vance wrote one of his first science fiction stories for an English class assignment; his professor's reaction was "We also have a piece of science fiction" in a scornful tone, Vance's first negative review. He worked for a while as an electrician in the naval shipyards at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii—for "56 cents an hour". After working on a degaussing crew for a period, he left about a month before the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Vance graduated in 1942. Weak eyesight prevented military service. He found a job as a rigger at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California, and enrolled in an Army Intelligence program to learn Japanese, but washed out. In 1943, he memorized an eye chart and became an able seaman in the Merchant Marine. In later years, boating remained his favorite recreation; boats and voyages are a frequent motif in his work. He worked as a seaman, a rigger, a surveyor, a ceramicist, and a carpenter before he established himself fully as a writer, which did not occur until the 1970s.
From his youth, Vance had been fascinated by Dixieland and traditional jazz. He was an amateur of the cornet and ukelele, often accompanying himself with a kazoo, and was a competent harmonica player. His first published writings were jazz reviews for The Daily Californian, his college paper, and music is an element in many of his works.
In 1946, Vance met and married Norma Genevieve Ingold (died March 25, 2008), another Cal student. Vance continued to live in Oakland, in a house he built and extended with his family over the years, including a hand-carved wooden ceiling from Kashmir. The Vances had extensive travels, including one around-the-world voyage, and often spent several months at a time living in places like Ireland, Tahiti, South Africa, Positano (in Italy) and on a houseboat on Lake Nagin in Kashmir.
Vance began trying to become a professional writer in the late 1940s, as part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a movement of experimentation in literature and the arts. His first lucrative sale was one of the early Magnus Ridolph stories to Twentieth Century Fox, who also hired him as a screenwriter for the Captain Video television series. The proceeds supported the Vances for a year's travel in Europe. There are various references to the Bay Area Bohemian life in his work.
Science fiction authors Frank Herbert and Poul Anderson were among Vance's closest friends. The three jointly built a houseboat which they sailed in the Sacramento Delta. The Vances and the Herberts lived near Lake Chapala in Mexico together for a period.
Although legally blind since the 1980s, Vance continued to write with the aid of BigEd software, written especially for him by Kim Kokkonen. His final novel was Lurulu. Although Vance had stated Lurulu would be his final book, he subsequently completed an autobiography which was published in July 2009.
Vance died at his Oakland, California home in May 2013 at the age of 96.
Vance made his debut in print with "The World-Thinker", a 16-page story published by Sam Merwin in Thrilling Wonder Stories, Summer 1945. Since then he has written more than 60 books—perhaps almost 90. His work has been published in three categories: science fiction, fantasy and mystery.
Among Vance's earliest published work was a set of fantasy stories written while he served in the merchant marine during the war. They appeared in 1950, several years after Vance had started publishing science fiction in the pulp magazines, under the title The Dying Earth.
Vance wrote many science fiction short stories in the late 1940s and through the 1950s, which were published in magazines. Of his novels written during this period, a few were science fiction, but most were mysteries. Few were published at the time, but Vance continued to write mysteries into the early 1970s. In total, he wrote 15 novels outside of science fiction and fantasy, including the extended outline, The Telephone was Ringing in the Dark, published only by the VIE (Vance Integral Edition), and three books published under the Ellery Queen pseudonym. Some of these are not mysteries, for example Bird Island, and many fit uneasily in the category. These stories are set in and around his native San Francisco, except for one set in Italy and another in Africa. Two begin in San Francisco but take to the sea.
Many themes important to his more famous science fiction novels appeared first in the mysteries. The most obvious is the "book of dreams", which appears in Bad Ronald and The View from Chickweed's Window, prior to being featured in The Book of Dreams. The revenge theme is also more prominent in certain mysteries than in the science fiction (The View from Chickweed’s Window in particular). Bad Ronald was adapted to a not particularly faithful TV movie aired on ABC in 1974, as well as a French production (Méchant garçon) in 1992; this and Man in the Cage are the only works by Vance ever to be made into film.
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The Dying Earth series
Jack Vance - The Dying Earth (read by Arthur Morey)
Jack Vance - The Eyes Of The Overworld (read by Arthur Morey)
Jack Vance - Cugel's Saga (read by Arthur Morey)
Jack Vance - Rhialto The Marvellous (read by Arthur Morey)
George R.R. Martin - Songs Of The Dying Earth: Stories In Honor Of Jack Vance (read by Arthur Morey)
Lyonesse series
Jack Vance - Suldrun's Garden (read by Kevin T. Collins)
Jack Vance - The Green Pearl (read by Kevin T. Collins)
Jack Vance - Madouc (read by Kevin T. Collins)
Planet of Adventure series
Jack Vance - City Of The Chasch (read by Elijah Alexander)
Jack Vance - Servants Of The Wankh (read by Elijah Alexander)
Jack Vance - The Dirdir (read by Elijah Alexander)
Jack Vance - The Pnume (read by Elijah Alexander)
Cadwal Chronicles series book 1
Jack Vance - Araminta Station (read by Simon Vance)
Other
Jack Vance - To Live Forever (read by Kevin Kenerly)
Jack Vance - Ports Of Call (read by Misty Freelander)
Jack Vance - The Miracle Workers (read by Roy Avers)
Jack Vance - The Jack Vance Treasury (read by Mark Ashby)
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The Dying Earth series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8372c6fce3cb3c0b0b10289d75f66494/The_Dying_Earth.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/f0cfa2395f6edf9d0453f1e91ce4d39a/The_Eyes_Of_The_Overworld.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/38db53cae96d86aa6101596ab36cdcc9/Cugels_Saga.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4ee8bd255477f1649737b063bbcfa860/Rhialto_The_Marvellous.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/3e87cd6fe06c1dfe11f15db3a26e7c5f/Songs_Of_The_Dying_Earth.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a58e7f4a41ad9d9bbbb40584989af120/Songs_Of_The_Dying_Earth.part2.rar.html
Lyonesse series
http://rapidgator.net/file/3b483727f39d7c48f44f81900678baf5/Suldruns_Garden.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/abdd858eced9dbaeb57fa588f2bc3f99/The_Green_Pearl.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/23f6928004b620de7aea85b6dfa7939d/Madouc.rar.html
Planet of Adventure series
http://rapidgator.net/file/2e933d159effbdb096c10f4bc1f4862c/City_Of_The_Chasch.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/ed241f5774bc7c6507fe51cbf46aa9f8/Servants_Of_The_Wankh.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/6734d500b6b285033f07fc81dba9567e/The_Dirdir.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2fc683fb511a689481e034379afef1bf/The_Pnume.rar.html
Cadwal Chronicles series
http://rapidgator.net/file/8bc544091dba12f6d1b01aa147201397/Araminta_Station.rar.html
Other
http://rapidgator.net/file/40085a65a1592abde1c6006f7f248b98/To_Live_Forever.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/d8f54f13652831b662e8382d487e4449/Ports_Of_Call.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/90761fc34c92722cc05e74d93eee98f1/The_Miracle_Workers.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e8c816491976f8ae34c9141931007140/The_Jack_Vance_Treasury.part1.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/26e4a54c45cb5fbc79af83dc25610011/The_Jack_Vance_Treasury.part2.rar.html |
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