I was going to post different review, but hearing of Jack Vance's passing this past week, I've decided to pay a small tribute...

Neither prolific or close-mouthed, Jack Vance has written a few dozen short stories in his career.   And of these, “The Moon Moth” is...

Big Planet (1957) is Jack Vance’s third published novel.   Barely longer than a novella, the book nevertheless features many of the ...

Though certainly more well-known for his science fiction and fantasy, Jack Vance was also an avid mystery writer.   The crime genre i...

According to his autobiography This Is Me, Jack Vance! , the author constructed his own home.   The wood home is also an idea that pl...

Son of the Tree is a novella from very early in Vance’s career.   Written in 1950, the story presents some of the basics of style th...

The 1980s found Jack Vance moving into his sixth decade of life.   Imagination still sharp, he produced such works as the Lyonesse t...

Winning the 1966 Nebula for best novella, The Last Castle is amazingly only one of few major awards Jack Vance won in his career.   ...

The Dragon Masters may be Vance’s most successful work of short fiction.  The novella playing out like a film or video game, the reason i...

There is a variety of contexts in which a writer’s imagination can be viewed.   The profound depth of a single idea (e.g. Orwell’s 198...

(Note: this review is for the collection as a whole rather than individual short stories.) Encomium is a tribute album created in the ...

What’s to be said about Jack Vance that hasn’t already been said.   The man is simply one of the most imaginative writers of the 20th ...