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Tales Of The Dying Earth
The influential science fantasy masterpiece that inspired a generation of writers
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 2000
219 kr
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One of the most influential science-fantasy worlds ever envisaged, which inspired a generation of writers including George R.R. MartinThe fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance …
Complete Lyonesse
Suldrun's Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 2024
369 kr
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The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become …
Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth, the Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 2000
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
420 kr
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Emphyrio
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 1999
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
145 kr
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Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive - to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is …
Night Lamp
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 2015
145 kr
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Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where the full diversity of human development is revealed, the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery wittily told.Jaro's life is directed by an inner …
The Demon Princes, Vol. 1: The Star King * the Killing Machine * the Palace of Love
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
211 kr
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Collects three of the author's novels about the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for the destruction of his world.
The Demon Princes, Vol. 2: The Face * the Book of Dreams
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 1997
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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A race of beings who disguise themselves as humans and delight in power and destruction, the Demon Princes have themselves become the hunted, their peri lying in the hands of Kirth Gersen, a man bent on avenging the murder of his family and the destruction of his home planet.
Planet of Adventure
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 1993
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
300 kr
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Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited--not only by warring alien cultures, but human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history. Reith must find a way off planet to warn the Earth of Tschai's deadly …
Lurulu
Av Jack Vance
Häftad, 2006
137 kr
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Myron Tany, rebellious scion of a wealthy family, tours the Galaxy on a very questionable interstellar freighter, in search of his lurulu.Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, first the story of Jaro Fath unfolds: from wildling orphan to spaceship captain, a tale of adventure and discovery …
Complete Lyonesse
Suldrun''s Garden, The Green Pearl, Madouc
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2010
227 kr
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The Elder Isles - an ancient land where chivalry and the realm of fairie exist side by side. A land of mystery, strange beauty, high adventure and arcane magic. Kings are at war, opposing magicians devise ever more cunning stratagems. It is a land where princesses and changelings both can become …
Dying Earth
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth''s morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance''s finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, …
Rapparee
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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The Rapparee is Jack Vance''s preferred title for the novel previously published as The Space Pirate and The Five Gold Bands. Five gold bracelets imprinted with cryptic messages were the clues that set Paddy Blackthorn off on a riotous galactic treasure hunt. But Paddy found himself not only the …
Big Planet
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Big Planet is Jack Vance''s first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, …
Vandals of the Void
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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In the Foreword, writing fifty years ago, the author describes his vision of a new space age; he predicts that by 1985 the age of space piracy will begin and that a Space Navy will be established, speculating that some of his younger readers might participate: "I hope that none of you serve with …
Gold and Iron
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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The gigantic world known as Big Planet had become a wilderness of strange peoples and weird cultures as a result of having been the dumping ground for every crackpot and malcontent that ever emigrated from the Earth. Somewhere in its unmapped vastness a plot was being hatched to disturb the peace …
Clarges
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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The city of Clarges is a near-utopia, surrounded by barbarism throughout the rest of the world. Abundant resources and the absence of political conflict lead to a pleasant life that should be stress-free. However, nearly everyone is obsessed with a perpetual scramble for status, called slope. …
Languages of Pao
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
50 kr
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The Panarch of Pao is dead and Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father''s death. It is at the secret fortress on the planet Breakness that Beran discovers the dreaded truth behind the assassination of his father-and much more. The people of Pao are …
Cugel the Clever
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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In the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities that echoed with the vastness of the world''s history, science, myth and magic had become one. Sorcerors who read the books of ancient times held great power, and …
Blue World
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture. Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they survived on the flora and fauna of the sea. But they have always been at the mercy of the kragen …
Space Opera
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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A space opera is what science fiction readers call an adventure in outer space and on alien planets. But a space opera could also be an opera, a musical work, that originated in outer space... Jack Vance''s unique novel SPACE OPERA fits both definitions marvelously! Because it starts with the …
Magnificent Showboats
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
51 kr
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The Magnificent Showboats follows the farcical adventures of Apollon Zamp, owner of the showboat Miraldra''s Enchantment, and his troupe of acrobats, magicians and actors. Zamp is invited by the King of Soyvanesse to travel up the river Vissel to the distant city of Mornune, there to participate in …
Emphyrio
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
39 kr
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Far in the future, the craftsmen of the distant planet Halma create goods which are the wonder of the galaxy. But they know little of this. Their society is harshly regimented, its religion austere and unforgiving, and primitive - to maintain standards, even the most basic use of automation is …
Chasch
Av Jack Vance
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Tschai, the setting for the quartet of novels which commences with The Chasch (originally City of the Chasch), is a planet inhabited by a variety of alien species coexisting uneasily with humans - the Chasch, the Wannek, the Dirdir and the Pnume. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the …
