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The Dragon Masters and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109920
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Masters and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The race of man is growing old, but it's not yet ready to die - not while there are dragons still to kill! The cross-bred dragon armies of the Men of Aerlith are the most appalling horrors ever to threaten the sanity of our future: Termagents ~ three hundred reptilian giants with six legs apiece, the most fecund breeders of them all. Jugglers ~ eighteen of them, growling amongst themselves, waiting for an opportunity to snap off a leg from any unwary groom. Murderers (striding and long-horned) ~ eighty-five of each, with scaly tails and eyes like crystals. Fiends ~ fifty-two powerful monsters, their tails tipped with spike steel balls. Blue Horrors, Basics, Spider Dragons... the enemy has no chance.

The Dragon Masters and other stories (in Russian)

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780464309406
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Masters and other stories (in Russian) written by Jack Vance and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here in one unforgettable volume are three of Jack Vance's best novellas-rich adventures of humanity in crisis, showcasing Vance's stylistic flair, creative ingenuity, wit, and storytelling skill: the Hugo-winning "The Dragon Masters," Hugo and Nebula-winning "The Last Castle", and that gem of science re-born, "The Miracle Workers". Resilient Joaz Banbeck of Aerlith sends his remarkable dragons against the non-human Basics. Xanten of Castle Hagedorn deals with the alien Meks, in their war of retribution on our own beleaguered, far-future Earth; the pragmatic Sam Salazar outdoes his betters, to save the last remnants of the human race on Pangborn.

The World-Thinker and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109874
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The World-Thinker and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes Vance's first published story ("The World-Thinker") and a selection of other stories including the novella "Telek". Contents: The World-Thinker, Dream Castle ("I'll Build Your Dream Castle"), Seven Exits from Bocz, The God and the Temple Robber ("The Temple of Han"), Telek, Men of The Ten Books, D.P., Noise ("Music of the Spheres"), The Absent Minded Professor ("First Star I See Tonight"; "Murder Observed"), The Devil On Salvation Bluff, Where Hesperus Falls, The Phantom Milkman, A Practical Man's Guide, The House Lords, The Secret All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.

The Moon Moth and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109939
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Moon Moth and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an out-worlder's body was found in the river, Thissel knew where the criminal was - behind one of the masks worn by the remaining out-worlders on Sirene. But how could he tell which one, on a world where everybody lived behind masks, where men never spoke but sang to instruments, and where any act of intervention with another man's business was punishable by death!

Son of the Tree and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109890
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Son of the Tree and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tree ruled the horizons, shouldered aside the clouds, and wore thunder and lightning like a wreath of tinsels. It was the soul of life, trampling and vanquishing the inert, and Joe understood how it had come to be worshipped by the first marvelling settlers on Kyril." Joe Smith is roaming the galaxy in search of the man who has stolen his love's heart. During his travels he becomes involved with a power struggle taking part between two worlds - one religious, the other cultural - over possession of a developing, but potentially lucrative, third.

The Potters of Firsk and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109882
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Potters of Firsk and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Potters of Firsk includes the majority of Vance's 'Magnus Ridolph' stories, previously collected in The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph. In the VIE edition this book is titled Gadget Stories. Contents: Planet of the Black Dust, Dead Ahead ("Ultimate Quest"), Hard Luck Diggings, Sanatoris Short-cut, The Unspeakable McInch, The Howling Bounders, The King of Thieves, The Sub-standard Sardines, To B or Not to C or to D ("Cosmic Hotfoot"), Spa of the Stars, The Enchanted Princess ("The Dreamer"), The Potters of Firsk, The Visitors ("Winner Lose All"), Plagian Siphon ("The Uninhibited Robot"; "The Planet Machine"), Dover Spargill's Ghastly Floater, Sabotage on Sulfur Planet, Three Legged Joe, Four Hundred Blackbirds, Sjambak, Parapsyche, Sail 25 ("Gateway to Strangeness"; "Dust of Far Suns"). All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.

The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109912
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Houses of Iszm and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inhabitants of a planet called Iszm, a species known as the Iszic, have evolved the native giant trees into living homes, with all needs and various luxuries supplied by the trees' own natural growth. The Iszic maintain a jealously-guarded monopoly, exporting only enough trees to keep prices high and make a great profit. The protagonist, Ailie Farr, is a human botanist who goes to Iszm (like many others before him, of many species) to steal a female tree, which might allow the propagation of the species off world and break the monopoly. This volume includes two short novels, previously published separately - the title story, and Nopalgarth (published as The Brains of Earth). The collection is rounded out by two of his best shorter works - "The Gift of Gab" and "The Narrow Land". "The Narrow Land" was the first of a proposed story sequence which was never completed. Contents: The Houses of Iszm, The Gift of Gab, Nopalgarth (The Brains of Earth), The Narrow Land All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.

Golden Girl and Other Stories

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109904
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Golden Girl and Other Stories written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of Jack Vance's best short fiction, containing: Golden Girl Masquerade on Dicantropus Abercrombie Station Cholwell's Chickens The Mitr The World Between When the Five Moons Rise Meet Miss Universe The Insufferable Red-headed Daughter of Commander Tynnott, O.T.E.

Cave of the Crystal Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #26)

Author : Tracey West
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1339022397
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Cave of the Crystal Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #26) written by Tracey West and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latest action-packed installment of this New York Times bestselling series, Drake must help free the brilliant Crystal Dragon! Pick a book. Grow a Reader! This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow! Griffith is in trouble! Drake and Rori travel to Greenshire to find him. They meet a boy named Llew, who uses a wheelchair. He shows them the Crystal Cave where Griffith was last seen. Once inside, they are attacked by Belydor, a Crystal Dragon who does not trust humans. Can Llew help the Dragon Masters gain the dragon's trust? And will they find Griffith? With engaging black-and-white artwork on every page, kids won't be able to put down this action-packed adventure!

Big Planet

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109505
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Big Planet written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, which Vance explores with the zest and humour which are hallmarks of his work. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps. Big Planet was cut almost in half for its first publication, but sadly the excised pages are lost.

Suldrun's Garden

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575113243
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Suldrun's Garden written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lyonesse sequence evokes the Elder Isles, is a baroque land of pre-Arthurian myth now lost beneath the Atlantic, where powerful sorcerers, aloof faeries, stalwart champions, and nobles eccentric, magnanimous, and cruel pursue intrigue among their separate worlds . . . Prince Aillas of Troicinet is betrayed on his first diplomatic voyage and cast into the sea. Before he redeems his birthright, he must pass the breadth of Hybras Isle as prisoner, vagabond, and slave, an acquaintance of faeries, wizards, and errant knights, and lover to a sad and beautiful girl whose fate sets his bitter rivalry with the tyrant Casmir, King of Lyonesse. (First published in 1983)

Ecce and Old Earth

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109858
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Ecce and Old Earth written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequel to "Araminta Station", features the character of Glawen Clattuc, who helped save the unique planet Cadwal. The charter that granted Cadwal conservation has disappeared - and Glawen and Wayness Tamm are sent across a variety of planets to try and retrieve it.

The Wannek

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109629
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Wannek written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess, the Flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe. Monsters of land and sea lay before them, and beings both human and alien who might rob, kill, or enslave them.

The Languages of Pao

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109556
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Pao written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panarch of Pao is dead and Beran Panasper, his young son and heir, must flee the planet to live and avenge his father's death. It is at the secret fortress on the planet Breakness that Beran discovers the dreaded truth behind the assassination of his father-and much more. The people of Pao are a docile lot, content to live in harmony with the rest of the cosmos, but the scientists at Breakness seek to alter the psychology of the Paonese for their own purpose-and Beran holds the key to their audacious plan. Beran will return to Pao, transforming his home world beyond his teacher's wildest dreams. But though he has been fashioned into a man of Breakness, Beran's heart is of Pao. And he brings to his world the seeds of change that will save Pao...or destroy it.

The Rapparee

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109491
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Rapparee written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rapparee is Jack Vance's preferred title for the novel previously published as The Space Pirate and The Five Gold Bands. Five gold bracelets imprinted with cryptic messages were the clues that set Paddy Blackthorn off on a riotous galactic treasure hunt. But Paddy found himself not only the hunter but also the hunted for the armbands had been left to him by his would-be killers, the Rulers of the Five Planets. All Jack Vance titles in Gateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.

The Asutra

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109742
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Asutra written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gastel Etzwane had held total power in the Land of Shant: the brooding musician, turned man of action with his corps of Brave Free Men, rid the land of slavery and alien invaders in one masterful stroke-only to discover the greatest threat of all - alien parasites of inconceivable intelligence and unfathomable purpose. Their expulsion from Shat has been celebrated by all, but Etzwane is uneasy. For wild rumours come out of the hidden land of Caraz-and once again the musician must don the cloak of action, setting out on a dangerous quest for knowledge that will take him farther than he ever wanted to go: to the grim reaches of a hideously alien world, there to learn the secret of the Asutra!

Strange People, Queer Notions

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1473229367
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Strange People, Queer Notions written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in Rome, art student Chuck Musgrave is offered a job painting pictures of Positano, a picturesque town south of Naples. When Chuck arrives in Positano, strange things begin to happen. It becomes clear that not all foreigners living in Positano are there for the scenery!