This article in french here: https://wordpress.com/post/bigvance.wordpress.com/3295 In the 50s and 60s, SF fandom rumored that Jack Vance was just one of Henry Kuttner’s many pseudonyms, and this persisted even after his death in 1958. The rumor spread after the publication of the anthology The Best Science Fiction stories in late 1950, in which the editor… Lire la suite 1950 – The Kuttner/Vance controversy
Illustrated German edition in 1985 Editor : HEYNE Illustration: Hubert SchweitzerCover: Michael M Pfeiffer Contains: 1: Sail 25 (1962) – RAUMSEGLER FÜNFUNDZWANZIG – Une Porte sur l’Ailleurs p. 17, 31 The story of Henry Belt, a hard-drinking roughneck who developed a special method of training space cadets. Fr : L’histoire d’Henry Belt, un rustre porté sur… Lire la suite Staub fermer Sonnen / Dust of Far Suns
Jack Vance’s monsters, aliens and other creatures illustrated in the pulps from 1945 to 1965 This gallery contains illustrations presented in the site: https://vancepulps.wordpress.com/ About Illustrations: 1946 ill. Hanchioni Thrilling Wonder Stories Phalid-s Fate1946-07 planet of the black dust Startling stories1949-03 the Howling Bounders Startling stories1948-11 The Unspeakable MacInch Startling stories1950 ill. Finlay Startling Stories… Lire la suite The Early Vance Bestiary
My texts: essays, translations, books and visuals about Jack Vance Other resources in French HERE / disclaimer about licences: see at the bottom JACK VANCE RECYCLING NAMES Dictionaries of proper names in Vance’s work: 5000 hits, 605 pages – by Wil Ceron free pdf 4 mo JACK VANCE IN PULPS This collection includes 89 covers… Lire la suite RESOURCES – text & media
Jack Vance’s writing is of such quality that one wonders if one should really believe his numerous affirmations indicating that he only worked for money.Here are ten statements taken from various interviews that shed light on the subject (without however ending the debate!) (Broadcast – hour 25 – 1976) :VANCE: Leaving the field? I can’t afford… Lire la suite Vance, Writing, Money
« Presse-Pocket » editor (France) 1978-2001 French here Bio Years 1978 to 1987 Years 1988 to 2001 Siudmak interview More about Wojtek Siudmak Bio Wojtek Siudmak is a French painter and sculptor born in 1942 in Poland. He started to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Then in 1966, he came to France to… Lire la suite WOJTEK SIUDMAK & JACK VANCE
Témoignages, rencontres, anecdotes « Jack Vance, homme à tout faire et poète de la Science-Fiction « (Thomas A. Siebel) Une sélection de 32 textes d’auteurs très divers ayant approché ou côtoyé l’écrivain discret, étonnant, attachant et plein d’humour qu’est Jack Vance, viennent d’être réunis dans un recueil disponibles en version PDF. Vous pouvez le télécharger ici (1mo):… Lire la suite À Propos de Jack Vance
LES MONDES PERDUS ET ANCIENS FUTURS DE JACK VANCE Un essai de David B. Williams paru dans Extant 19 mars 2007 Dans COSMOPOLIS 49, j’ai parlé des bêtes féroces et des monstres horribles qui peuplent de nombreuses œuvres de fantasy et de SF de Jack Vance. Ce ne sont pas les seules figures récurrentes de… Lire la suite Mondes Perdus – Anciens Futurs
Warning: some parts of this article may cause inconvenience to sensitive Star Trek fans… STAR TREK: Jack Vance’s view QUESTION : When Roddenberry talks about Star Trek, he talks about using Science fiction as an allegory to talk about war and peace…VANCE: Ah! This is just a lot of ten-dollar words, meaningless, just a lot of… Lire la suite STAR TREK and VANCE
STAR TREK vu par Jack Vance Quelques déclarations personnelles de Jack Vance (extraits d’interviews) : VANCE : … Je me suis souvent demandé si… Je ne sais pas quel est son nom, mais s’il m’approchait et me disait : « Vance, viens écrire des trucs de Star Trek… »INTERVIEWER: Il s’appelle Gene Roddenberry.VANCE : Je me suis souvent… Lire la suite Vance et Star Trek