Jack Vance

Rhialto the Marvellous (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Dying Earth series concludes as "a group of magicians embark on various adventures... recounted in Vance's wonderful, unique prose" ( The Guardian). Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his The Dying Earth series, fascinating, baroque tales set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. Rhialto the Marvellous contains three linked novellas about the adventures of the wizard Rhialto across the decadent landscape of the Dying Earth, under its swollen red sun. "Chock full of the ludicrous circumstances and strange humor that Jack Vance fans love." - Fantasy Literature "In the end, there is nothing like Rhialto the Marvellous in Vance's oeuvre... one of his most under-appreciated best." - Speculiction

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tor Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466821972
• Artikelnr.: 40146050

Autorenporträt

Jack Vance (1916 - )Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining, engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, The Dying Earth, in 1950. Among his many books are The Dragon Masters, for which he won his first Hugo Award, Big Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse sequence. He has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst others, and in 1997 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America.