List of works by Jack Vance

This is complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance.^[1]

Works

Fantasy

The Dying Earth

• The Dying Earth (author's preferred title: Mazirian the Magician, collection of linked stories, 1950)
• The Eyes of the Overworld (author's preferred title: Cugel the Clever, novel 1966)
• Cugel's Saga (author's preferred title: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight, novel, 1983)

The Laughing Magician (Omnibus containing The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga, 2007)

• Rhialto the Marvellous (collection of linked stories, 1984)

Lyonesse

• Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (1983) (also titled Lyonesse and Suldrun's Garden)
• Lyonesse: The Green Pearl (1985) (also titled The Green Pearl)
• Lyonesse: Madouc (1989) (also titled Madouc)

Science fiction

The Demon Princes Series

Vance's The Star King was serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction

• The Star King (1964)
• The Killing Machine (1964)
• The Palace of Love (1967)
• The Face (1979)
• The Book of Dreams (1981)

The Cadwal Chronicles

• Araminta Station (1987)
• Ecce and Old Earth (1991)
• Throy (1992)

Alastor

• Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
• Marune: Alastor 933 (1975)
• Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)

Durdane

• The Anome (alternate title: The Faceless Man, 1973)
• The Brave Free Men (1973)
• The Asutra (1974)

Tschai

• City of the Chasch (author's preferred title: The Chasch. 1968)
• Servants of the Wankh (reissue title: The Wannek, 1969)
• The Dirdir (1969)
• The Pnume (1970)

Non-series science fiction novels

• The Five Gold Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953)
• Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953)
• To Live Forever (1956)
• Big Planet (1957)
• The Languages of Pao (1958)
• Slaves of the Klau (original title: Planet of the Damned; alternate title: Gold and Iron) (1958)
• Space Opera (1965)
• The Blue World (1966)
• Emphyrio (1969)
• The Gray Prince (author's preferred title: The Domains of Koryphon) (1974)
• Showboat World (author's preferred title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet) (1975)
• Maske: Thaery (1976)
• Galactic Effectuator (this title is an editorial invention for the collected Miro Hetzel stories "Freitzke's Turn" and "The Dogtown Tourist Agency") (1980)
• Night Lamp (1996)
• Ports of Call (1998)
• Lurulu (2004) — sequel to Ports of Call, completing a short multi-part novel

Selected novellas

• "Son of the Tree" (1951; reissued as a novel in 1964)
• "Abercrombie Station" and "Cholwell's Chickens" (both 1952; two linked novellas later issued as the novel Monsters in Orbit in 1965)
• "Telek" (1952)
• "The Houses of Iszm" (1954; reissued as a novel in 1964)
• "The Moon Moth" (1961)
• "Gateway to Strangeness" (1962) (also titled "Dust of Far Suns" and "Sail 25")
• "The Dragon Masters" (1963 - Hugo Award Winner)
• "The Brains of Earth" (author's preferred title: "Nopalgarth") (1966)
• "The Last Castle" (1966, Nebula Award winner)
• "Three-Legged Joe" (short story) (1953; featured in Startling Stories)

Mystery/Thrillers

• Take My Face (1957), as "Peter Held"
• Isle of Peril (1957), as "Alan Wade" (also titled Bird Isle)
• The Man In the Cage (1960)
• The Four Johns (1964), as "Ellery Queen" (also titled Four Men Called John, UK 1976)
• A Room to Die In (1965), as "Ellery Queen"
• The Fox Valley Murders (1966)
• The Madman Theory (1966), as "Ellery Queen"
• The Pleasant Grove Murders (1967)
• The Deadly Isles (1969)
• Bad Ronald (1973)
• The View from Chickweed's Window (1979)
• The House on Lily Street (1979)
• The Dark Ocean (1985)
• Strange People, Queer Notions (1985)

Selected collections

• Future Tense (1964)
• The World Between and Other Stories (1965)
• The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)
• Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969)
• The Worlds of Jack Vance (1973)
• Lost Moons (1982)
• The Narrow Land (1982)
• The Augmented Agent and Other Stories (1986)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (1986)
• Chateau D'If and Other Stories (1990)
• When the Five Moons Rise (1992)
• Tales of the Dying Earth (1999)
• The Jack Vance Treasury (2007), ISBN 1-59606-077-8
• Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)
• Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance (2010)

Autobiography

• This Is Me, Jack Vance! (Subterranean Press, 2009) (won the 2010 Hugo Award, Best Related Book)^[2]

References