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John Holbrook „Jack“ Vance (1916-2013) arbeitete unter anderem als Hotelpage, in einer Konservendosenfabrik, als Schreiner und bei der Handelsmarine, ehe er sich hauptberuflich dem Schreiben widmete. 1945 veröffentlichte er seine erste Kurzgeschichte in Thrilling Wonder Stories, 1950 erschien sein Episodenroman „The Dying Earth“, „Die sterbende Erde“, die ihn berühmt machte und ein ganzes Genre nachhaltig prägte. Er veröffentlichte zahlreiche weitere Kurzgeschichten und Romane, vor allem in den Genres Fantasy und Science-Fiction, aber auch Krimis. Mit den Schriftstellern Frank Herbert und Poul Anderson war er eng befreundet. Die drei bauten ein Hausboot zusammen, mit dem sie das Sacramento Delta befuhren. Vance starb am 26. Mai 2013 in seinem Haus in Oakland.




81 Ebooks by Jack Vance

Jack Vance: Sjambak
Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn—until he found them all the hard …
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Phillips Barbee & Frederic Brown: The Golden Age of Science Fiction – Volume VIII
The unbelievably awesome 8th volume of the Golden Age of Science Fiction! Featuring: Sjambak, by Jack Vance One Man’s Poison, by Robert Sheckley Earthmen Bearing Gifts, by Frederic Brown The Leech, …
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Jack Vance: Sjambak
Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn—until he found them all the hard …
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Jack Vance: Stazione Araminta
Fantascienza – romanzo (695 pagine) – Gli intrighi, le strane culture, i fantastici paesaggi alieni e i misteri del pianeta Cadwal in una tra le più riuscite creazioni di un grande maestro della fant …
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Jack Vance: Ecce e la Vecchia Terra
romanzo (507 pagine) – L’intrigo per sfruttare le risorse della riserva ecologica Cadwal porta sul continente selvaggio Ecce, e fin sul pianeta più misterioso di tutti: la Vecchia Terra Il pian …
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Jack Vance: Throy
Fantascienza – romanzo (334 pagine) – Dopo ‘Stazione Araminta’ e ‘Ecce e la Vecchia Terra’ ecco il romanzo conclusivo della trilogia di Cadwal. Cadwal: un pianeta tanto unico e splendido da ess …
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Jack Vance: Lyonesse: Il giardino di Suldrun
Fantasy – romanzo (587 pagine) – Il primo libro dell’affascinante trilogia fantasy dal grande autore di ‘La terra morente’, che racconta la storia della principessa triste Suldrun, del valoroso princ …
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Jack Vance: Complete Lyonesse
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 …
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Jack Vance: Dying Earth
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 …
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Jack Vance: Rapparee
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 …
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Jack Vance: Big Planet
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 …
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Jack Vance: Vandals of the Void
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, …
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Jack Vance: Gold and Iron
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 …
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Jack Vance: Clarges
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 …
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Jack Vance: Languages of Pao
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 …
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Jack Vance: Cugel the Clever
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, …
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Jack Vance: Blue World
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, …
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Jack Vance: Space Opera
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 …
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Jack Vance: Magnificent Showboats
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 …
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Jack Vance: Emphyrio
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 …
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Jack Vance: Chasch
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 – …
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Jack Vance: Wannek
Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe. Monsters of land and sea lay …
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Jack Vance: Dirdir
Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved only stealing a spaceship or having one built to order – for Tschai was the abode of several intelligent star-born races and, as such, had …
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Jack Vance: Pnume
The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave-species, the Pnumekin: The Pnume were the historians of Tschai, collecting …
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Jack Vance: Star King
The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonists parents were murdered by a posse of 5 galactic criminals, the "demon princes". He vows revenge, and eliminates them one …
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Jack Vance: Killing Machine
Kirth Gersen, having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus, another of the Demon Princes. The name Kokor Hekkus, which means "killing machine" in …
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Jack Vance: Palace of Love
In the midpoint novel of the "Demon Princes" series, Kirth Gersen sets his sights upon the mysterious Viole Falushe. Vance describes this murderous creature as a "sybarite." …
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Jack Vance: Face
Book four in the series which relate the story of Kirth Gersen as he exacts his revenge on five notorious criminals, collectively known as the Demon Princes, who carried his village off into slavery …
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Jack Vance: Book of Dreams
Kirth Gersen carries in his pocket a slip of paper with a list of five names written upon it – the names of five Demon Princes. The Demon Princes are a race of beings who disguise themselves as …
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Jack Vance: Anome
At last a lone youth dares to challenge the unchallengeable, to defy the Anome. But first he must find him – and though all men obey his orders, no man knows his identity. He is the Faceless …
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Jack Vance: Brave Free Men
The Faceless Man is a prisoner in his own palace. His power over the people of Durdane is in the hands of Gastel Etzwane, a youth whose thirst for vengeance against the dreaded Rogushkoi would be …
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Jack Vance: Asutra
Gastel Etzwane had held total power in the Land of Shant: the brooding musician, turned man of action with his corps of Brave Free Men, rid the land of slavery and alien invaders in one masterful …
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Jack Vance: Domains of Koryphon
With the guidance of the Gray Prince, the fierce Uldrans prepare to reclaim their rule over the planet Koryphon, seizing power from the hands of the aristocratic …
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Jack Vance: Trullion: Alastor 2262
Trullion – World 2262 of the Alastor Cluster – was a beautiful waterworld of fens, mists, idyllic islands set in clear oceans whose teeming richness provided food for the taking. The Trill were a …
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Jack Vance: Marune: Alastor 933
The second of the three ‘Alastor’ novels, a typical Vance story of a man who has lost his memory and is sent to the world Marune in the Alastor Cluster, which is believed to be his home. Once he has …
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Jack Vance: Wyst: Alastor 1716
Arrabus on the planet Wyst is an "egalistic" nation, where everyone is supposedly equal to everyone else. Arrabins work only two hours per week ("drudge"), which is drawn at …
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Jack Vance: Dogtown Tourist Agency
Miro Hetzel is an effectuator: a private investigator and gentleman of the Gaean Reach. This book contains two stories of his adventures. "The Dogtown Tourist Agency" – The Istagam …
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Jack Vance: Maske: Thaery
There is a Hole at the eastern fringe of the known universe. Deep within it hangs a lost star, Mora, with twin planets, Maske and Skay. On wild Maske there is a rocky peninsula inhabited by a clan of …
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Jack Vance: Rhialto the Marvellous
Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, …
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Jack Vance: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
The fantastic quests and adventures of Cugel: the greatest rogue in the realms of fantasy. For the second time, Cugel the Clever has been carried north over the Ocean of Sighs and dumped half a world …
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Jack Vance: Araminta Station
Travel out along the galaxy’s Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea’s Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System – three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that …
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Jack Vance: Ecce and Old Earth
This sequel to "Araminta Station", features the character of Glawen Clattuc, who helped save the unique planet Cadwal. The charter that granted Cadwal conservation has disappeared – and …
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Jack Vance: Throy
In the reaches of Mircea’s Whips the convoluted plots and politics that have swirled around the House of Clattuc and the Conservancy of Cadwal are beginning to unravel. But what remains for Glawen …
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Jack Vance: World-Thinker and Other Stories
This volume includes Vance’s first published story ("The World-Thinker") and a selection of other stories including the novella "Telek".Contents: The World-Thinker, Dream Castle …
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Jack Vance: Potters of Firsk and Other Stories
The Potters of Firsk includes the majority of Vance’s ‘Magnus Ridolph’ stories, previously collected in The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph. In the VIE edition this book is titled Gadget …
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Jack Vance: Son of the Tree and Other Stories
"The Tree ruled the horizons, shouldered aside the clouds, and wore thunder and lightning like a wreath of tinsels. It was the soul of life, trampling and vanquishing the inert, and Joe …
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Jack Vance: Golden Girl and Other Stories
A collection of some of Jack Vance’s best short fiction, containing:Golden Girl Masquerade on Dicantropus Abercrombie Station Cholwell’s Chickens The Mitr The World Between When the Five Moons Rise …
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Jack Vance: Houses of Iszm and Other Stories
The inhabitants of a planet called Iszm, a species known as the Iszic, have evolved the native giant trees into living homes, with all needs and various luxuries supplied by the trees’ own natural …
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Jack Vance: Dragon Masters and Other Stories
The race of man is growing old, but it’s not yet ready to die – not while there are dragons still to kill! The cross-bred dragon armies of the Men of Aerlith are the most appalling horrors ever to …
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Jack Vance: Moon Moth and Other Stories
When an out-worlder’s body was found in the river, Thissel knew where the criminal was – behind one of the masks worn by the remaining out-worlders on Sirene. But how could he tell which one, on a …
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Jack Vance: This is Me, Jack Vance
Jack Vance has long been one of the most influential, admired and imitated writers in science fiction and fantasy literature, the award-winning author of such widely acclaimed works as The Dying …
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Jack Vance: Suldrun’s Garden
The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, …
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Jack Vance: Green Pearl
The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, …
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Jack Vance: Madouc
The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, …
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Jack Vance: Night Lamp
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 …
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Jack Vance: Sjambak
Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turnuntil he found them all the hard …
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Jack Vance: Ciao, sono Jack Vance! (e questa storia sono io)
Fantascienza – saggio (208 pagine) – Raccontata con leggerezza e ironia, la straordinaria vita di uno dei più grandi scrittori di fantascienza. Finalmente riusciamo a conoscere Jack. PREMIO HUGO 2010 …
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Jack Vance: Lyonesse: La perla verde
Fantasy – romanzo (543 pagine) – Maghi, pianeti alieni, guerre, avventure, intrighi: il grande fantasy di Jack Vance nel secondo libro della trilogia di Lyonesse Quando la perfida maga Desmëi d …
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Jack Vance: Lyonesse: Madouc
Fantasy – romanzo (592 pagine) – Le avventure della principessa Madouc si intrecciano con guerre e sfide ultraterrene nelle leggendarie isole Elder nel gran finale della trilogia fantasy di Lyonesse. …
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Jack Vance: Man in the Cage
Noel Hutson considers himself a gentleman adventurer-but running guns in Morocco during Algeria’s revolution, he gets more than he bargained for.Noel goes missing, and his brother Darrell Hutson …
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Jack Vance: Bad Ronald
Seventeen-year old Ronald Wilby is an introverted young man with a protective single mother.Walking home one evening, Ronald stumbles into young Carol Mathews; in the encounter, Carol ends up …
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Jack Vance: Deadly Isles
A young scientist with ties to a family fortune survives a murder attempt while working in Tahiti. He discovers the identity of the assailant, but not the motive. For this, he must follow the …
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Jack Vance: Bird Isle
Lying off the coast of Monterey, Bird Island is favored with tranquil beaches, coves and rocky hills. The island is home to a finishing school for girls, and a picturesque old hotel-in desperate need …
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Jack Vance: Flesh Mask
His face badly burned in a motor accident, young Robert Struve is horribly disfigured.Unable to afford corrective surgery, and denied lawful redress against the rich man whose daughter was …
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Jack Vance: Fox Valley Murders
Ausley Wyett’s release from prison after sixteen years in prison is an event of many consequences for the residents of San Rodrigo County, California. Five men whose testimonies led to Wyett’s …
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Jack Vance: House on Lily Street
Welfare worker Paul Gunther is killed when he looks into the blackmailing of some of his cases. Lieutenant George Shaw leads the murder investigation, which touches on the jazz community and beatnik …
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Jack Vance: Pleasant Grove Murders
In this second mystery novel of the Sheriff Joe Bain series, the appealing and energetic Sheriff of San Rodrigo County, California, is once again beset by extraordinary complications and diversions …
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Jack Vance: Strange People, Queer Notions
While in Rome, art student Chuck Musgrave is offered a job painting pictures of Positano, a picturesque town south of Naples. When Chuck arrives in Positano, strange things begin to happen. It …
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Jack Vance: View from Chickweed’s Window
In the aftermath of World War II, 8-year-old Luellen Enright is orphaned and shipped to San Francisco and the care of a covetous aunt, over-friendly uncle, and adolescent male cousins.Her only friend …
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Jack Vance: Dark Ocean
Ted Bunpole proposes, and Betty Haverhill says no. But Ted won’t take "no" for an answer, and the situation gets tiresome. Betty books passage to Europe by freighter.The Garda departs San …
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Jack Vance: Nopalgarth
Fantascienza – romanzo (130 pagine) – Dal grande Jack Vance, per la prima volta in italiano, una storia paranoica e terrificante nello stile di ‘Ai confini della realtà’ Sul pianeta Ixax la gue …
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Jack Vance: NOVA Science-Fiction 30
Die NOVA-30-Jubiläumsgeschichten: Karsten Kruschel: Dreckdrohnen und die Mathematik Mozarts Horst Pukallus: Das lange Jahr der kurzen Tage Norbert Stöbe: RITA flies at 5 p.m. Markus Müller: …
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Jack Vance: Parapsiche
Fantascienza – romanzo (132 pagine) – Il viaggio questa volta non è nello spazio, tra mondi e pianeti, ma nell’inconscio collettivo della specie umana. Per una volta niente mondi alieni, niente …
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Jack Vance: Sjambak
Wilbur Murphy sought romance, excitement, and an impossible Horseman of Space. With polite smiles, the planet frustrated him at every turn – until he found them all the hard way! A classic science …
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Jack Vance: Stelle nane
Fantascienza – racconti (298 pagine) – Tredici racconti rari e inediti, brillanti e arguti, dissacratori e divertenti, del grande Jack Vance Sette quadri sulla parete illustrano altrettanti str …
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Jack Vance: I signori dei draghi
Fantascienza – romanzo (119 pagine) – Un capolavoro della fantascienza vincitore del Premio Hugo nel 1963. La battaglia decisiva tra gli ultimi esseri umani e i loro draghi contro gli invasori alieni …
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Jack Vance & Jean-David Morvan: Die Legende der Dämonenprinzen. Band 1
Mit zarten neun Jahren wurde Kirth Gersen von seinem Großvater mit dessen letzten Atemzügen mit einer Aufgabe betraut, die fortan sein Leben bestimmen wird: die Mörder seiner Eltern, die fünf …
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Jack Vance: Trullion: Alastor 2262
Fantascienza – romanzo (259 pagine) – Paesaggi mozzafiato, personaggi intriganti e tutto il corredo di avventure che ci si aspetta dal miglior Jack Vance, autore dei Lyonesse e di Durdane. Laggiù …
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Jack Vance & Jean-David Morvan: Die Legende der Dämonenprinzen. Band 2
Endlich hat Kirth Gersen, dessen Rachedurst von Tag zu Tag wächst, eine Spur zum ersten der fünf Dämonenprinzen, die seinen Heimatplaneten vernichtet haben: Attel Malagat, genannt »das Monster«. Sein …
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Brendan DuBois & Norman Spinrad: Black Cat Weekly #106
For our 106th issue, we seem to have developed a television theme, with a pair of great speculative fiction stories about TV: Norman Spinrad’s “Prime Time” and Henry Slesar’s “The Show Must Go On.” S …
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