Jack Vance, Author Tor Books $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-85801-8 Classic space opera is alive and kicking in this latest interstellar spree from Vance (Night Lamp), who turns 82 this year.

The San Francisco native penned his first short stories while serving in the U.S. Merchant Marine in the 1940s. Among his best-known works was 'The Dying Earth,' a collection of fantasy stories.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96. Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland ...

Jack Vance: tributes pour in for Seventies sci-fi writer. Sci-fi writer Jack Vance, who died this week and has been compared to Tolkien, influenced the makers of Dungeons and Dragons, says Tim Martin.

Jack Vance was an author of science fiction and fantasy novels who wrote more than 60 books and many short stories during his long career. Vance viewed his task as a writer to be invisible to the ...

OAKLAND (AP) — Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96. Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his ...

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