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The World-Thinker and Other Stories Copertina flessibile – 18 ottobre 2017
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This volume might have been titled "The Early Jack Vance", as it features stories from the first dozen years of Vance’s career, when his major outlet was pulp magazines. In these stories, Vance already displays the lively imagination and mastery of the English language that came to characterize his entire career.
Among the fifteen stories are these:
The World-Thinker, Vance’s first published story, features two types who would recur often in Vance’s writing: the assured and competent hero, and the feisty, equally-competent heroine. They deal with an entity who, like Vance himself, creates fully-formed worlds at will.
I’ll Build Your Dream Castle is the first occurrence of a theme that also would appear again: the tension between those who buy and those who sell; in this case, houses.
DP! was written shortly after World War II, when refugees and victims of the carnage and upheaval were constantly in the news. Here, the ‘displaced persons’ are a hominid species driven from their homes by geological catastrophe.
Seven Exits from Bocz is also informed by the horrors of the second War.
The Foreword to this volume is written by Vance scholar David B. Williams, who presents a thorough overview of Vance’s entire career, from the promising beginnings presented here, to the masterpieces that would earn him the SFWA Grandmaster award in 1997 and a place in the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.
The World-Thinker and Other Stories is Volume 1 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series.Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collectionis based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoyup-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributedby a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of theauthor's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These uniquefeatures will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work forthe first time. – John Vance II
- Lunghezza stampa330 pagine
- LinguaInglese
- Data di pubblicazione18 ottobre 2017
- Dimensioni15.24 x 2.11 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101619471485
- ISBN-13978-1619471481
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- Editore : Spatterlight Press (18 ottobre 2017)
- Lingua : Inglese
- Copertina flessibile : 330 pagine
- ISBN-10 : 1619471485
- ISBN-13 : 978-1619471481
- Peso articolo : 485 g
- Dimensioni : 15.24 x 2.11 x 22.86 cm
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I've been a Jack Vance fan ever since and have read many of his later books. I never got around to reading his earlier ones although I was aware of them. They were difficult to find in paperback.
I read with great interest about the Vance Integral Editions (VIE) of the books but they were out of my price range.
Now that I have my Kindle and the VIE verions have been released by SF Gateway, I am finally able to read my all time favourite author's early work and discover a whole new (to me) collection of greta stories.
In this collection, Vance gets quite political and there are some interesting explorations of the human condition and of the way we think about and treat our environment. Very interesting and intriguing. It leaves me with a new and deeper respect.
I'm looking forward to reading all of his books.

