Jack Vance: Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography

Updated 01 Jul 1999

• Edited by A E Cunningham. London: The British Library, 1999. 212p (approx). 234 x 156mm.
  

• Cased, with full-colour wrap-around jacket (illus. by Paul Rhoads).
  
• ISBN: 0-7123-1102-5 (trade edition.) Price: £15.00 ($25.00 in the US)
  
• ISBN: 0-7123-1103-3 (1/250 signed edition.) Price: £40.00 (about $65.00 in the US)

Postage to the US is likely to be about $8 to $10.00 airmail; a little more if further afield. People can specify surface post if they wish, which should be somewhat less.

Orders can be placed now with:

Turpin Distribution,
Blackhorse Road,
Letchworth, Hertfordshire SG6 1HN, United Kingdom.

Orders can be taken in writing, by phone - tel. +44 (0) 1462 488900, or fax +44 (0)1462 480947, or emailed to turpin@rsc.org

Nearer publication Turpin will send pro forma invoices advising the exact total including postage. Payment can then be made by cheque or credit card (Visa, MC, Amex).

The Collectors' edition will be in a superior binding with colour frontis and a limitation page signed by Jack Vance. It is also planned to include photographs and perhaps other material not included in the trade edition.

Contents:

• Foreword: Harlan Ellison
  

• Introduction: Terry Dowling
  
• 1. Winged Being Plucking Fruit from the Tree of Life / Paul Rhoads
  
• 2. Biographical Sketch and Other Facts / Jack Vance
  
• 3. People are plastic: Jack Vance and the dilemma of cultural relativism / Tom Shippey
  
• 4. The Living Earth / Gene Wolfe
  
• 5. Growing Up, Striking Back / David Langford
  
• 6. Jack Vance: Dragon Master / Dan Simmons
  
• 7. Up on the Hill, with Jack... and Jill: Female Characters in the work of Jack Vance / David Mathew
  
• 8. A Bibliography of Jack Vance First Editions / A E Cunningham
  
• 9. Publishing Jack Vance / Charles Miller
  
• Notes on the Contributors