Posted by Leon J. Janzen on June 29, 1997 at 16:18:59:
I've just discovered (having only now linked with the net) this on-line Jack Vance group. I've avidly acquired Vance editions since the late 1960's, and have reread them on occasions beyond count. I shook hands with Jack one time during a book signing (Lyonesse) at a now defunct sci-fi store in Santa Monica. I asked him to sign my Avalon hardbound copies of Pao and Big Planet. He wore a shortsleeved white shirt, had a quart of beer near his elbow, and seemed bemused at the long line of breathless autograph hounds staring in his direction. Since then, most of my Vance activities have been over the phone and through the mail with my friend Gregg Parmentier, the editor of The Vance Phile. Immeasurable thanks to Jack Vance for creating stories no repeat reading can diminish ... and thanks for all of you for supporting and providing this special forum ... Leon.