Happy 95th Birthday to Jack Vance!

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Lawrence Person

He was born August 28, 1916.

By way of celebration, if you haven’t already seen it, here’s someone else’s Jack Vance collection. Remember to pick your jaw up off the floor before you leave.

And here’s some of Mike Berro’s extensive collection.

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov's, Analog, Postscripts, Jim Baen's Universe, Fear, and several anthologies. He also edits the Hugo-nominated SF critical magazine Nova Express, and runs the Turkey City Writer's Workshop. His non-fiction has appeared in National Review, Reason, Whole Earth Review, The Freeman, The World & I, Science Fiction Eye, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Slashdot.org. He owns such a large library (mostly science fiction first editions) he had to buy a two-story house to put it in, and then adopted a golden retriever to drag him out of his house on a regular basis. He also makes a mean batch of salsa.
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3 Responses to Happy 95th Birthday to Jack Vance!

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  2. Byron Rogers says:
    August 31, 2011 at 8:00 AM

    I can still recall the sense of wonder that ‘The Dragon Masters’ inspired when it first appeared as a short novel in Galaxy magazine, illustrated by Vaughn. Another favourite was an Ace paperback ‘Big Planet’. Just as Heinlein had the knack of making the future seem as real as daily life in the present (almost ‘taken for granted’), Vance had the other gift of rendering alienness in picaresque detail. I am cheered to see that he (like Fred Pohl and very few – any? – others) is stil active in his 90s.

  3. David Studhalter says:
    September 9, 2011 at 12:44 PM

    Wow, I’m a little late, but I can only say I admire no speculative fiction writer more than Jack Vance. I met him twice for just a moment at signings, but I feel like I have spent many many hours in his company. Literally no one has quite his way with the language in the context of (a term he hates) “science fiction.”

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