Posted by John R. Grout on September 29, 1998 at 18:54:09:
In Reply to: Re: Where to start ? posted by Martin Read on August 11, 1998 at 05:24:29:
: It might be interesting to do a "Straw-poll" of the contributers to this site, to find out what their first Vance novel was, and how they became addicted.
My first book (probably read at too young an age to understand
it) was "To Live Forever". Only when I read "The Moon Moth"
years later (in the greatest SF anthology mentioned earlier)
did I make the connection and begin to seek out his other
works.
I still think "The Moon Moth" is the best introduction, but
Araminta Station (if the intracacies don't scare the reader
off) would do also.