Posted by Peter R Booth on February 07, 1998 at 01:49:15:
In Reply to: Jack... we hardly know ye! posted by Paul Martin on February 02, 1998 at 20:02:20:
Well, from here in Australia I had the gall to ring Mr Vance up circa 1986 at his Oakland home...I found his phone number through our international directory service. His wife answered the phone, but I was able to speak to Jack...he told me that would be no sequel to Cugel's Saga as he felt it to be "anti-climactic", which depresses me even to this day :) He also told me he corresponds with nobody...although Terry Dowling over here does in fact keep in touch with him. He thought I was from Sydney. I am, but I was in Brisbane at the time...a question I did ask him, re: what would've happened to Adam Reith's Tschai companions upon return to Earth, he answered, and I'm certain he said this, that they would be famous on the world's TV talk show circuit!!! Now, that's something I didn't expect...just like his work, the man himself is capable of the droll and the unpredictable...