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The Wit and Wisdom of Jack Vance *

Author : Miguel Lugo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452096309
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Jack Vance * written by Miguel Lugo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Vance's stories have won the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and Edgar awards, and he has been honored as a Grand Master of the genre. This book highlights some of his most famous quotes, passages and excerpts, all in his inimitable and distinctive style. The selections are organized into broad themes such as philosophy, love, religion, footnotes and prefaces, arguments and discussions, bargaining, advice, and even trivia questions! Relive your enjoyment of these wonderous works with the author as he recounts how and when he first encountered them during his Life in Science Fiction. "Is all this clear" "You speak with authority! I must accept your concepts." (Throy; VIII, 4)

Dangerous Ways

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596063594
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book Dangerous Ways written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dangerous Ways serves up three of Vance's richest, most diverse mystery offerings from the middle period of his career: the Edgar Award-winning The Man in the Cage, the unforgettable hider-in-the-house thriller Bad Ronald, and the exotic South Seas murderfest The Deadly Isles.

The Dying Earth

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109483
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book The Dying Earth written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris. Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it. 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 Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches

Author : Abraham Lincoln
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811701600
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches written by Abraham Lincoln and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is H. Jack Lang's original selection of Abraham Lincoln's most interesting speeches and letters, from his first public position as postmaster in Illinois to the highest political office in the land. We read his witty testimonials, sharp commentaries, clever social correspondence, astute handling of angry generals and cabinet officers, and above all, his wisdom in motivating political supporters and defusing challengers -- all of which show a sagacity in politics, an eloquence of simple rhetoric, and an invariable gentlemanliness rarely seen in public life today. Lincoln was the first of the "great communicator" presidents. His words are as much alive today as when he uttered them 150 years ago. - Back cover.

This Is Me, Jack Vance! Or, More Properly, This Is I

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
ISBN 13 : 1619470659
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book This Is Me, Jack Vance! Or, More Properly, This Is I written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century

Author : Frank S. Pepper
Publisher : New York : P. Bedrick Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of the 20th Century written by Frank S. Pepper and published by New York : P. Bedrick Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Suldrun's Garden

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
ISBN 13 : 9781619470910
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Suldrun's Garden written by Jack Vance and published by Spatterlight Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add fairies, ogres, changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten warriors at war with all humanity. Stir in politics, intrigue, plots and assassinations, battles and sieges, then set it all to simmer in a mythical archipelago across the western sea before the time of Arthur. Jack Vance draws together the threads of fairy tale and pagan myth to weave an epic tapestry of adventure and intrigue in the Elder Isles. The result is a masterpiece. - Matt Hughes "Suldrun's Garden" is Book I of the Lyonesse series, and Volume 52 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series. Released in the centenary of the author's birth, this handsome new collection is based upon the prestigious Vance Integral Edition. Select volumes enjoy up-to-date maps, and many are graced with freshly-written forewords contributed by a distinguished group of authors. Each book bears a facsimile of the author's signature and a previously-unpublished photograph, chosen from family archives for the period the book was written. These unique features will be appreciated by all, from seasoned Vance collector to new reader sampling the spectrum of this author's influential work for the first time. - John Vance II

Rhialto the Marvellous

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109815
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Rhialto the Marvellous written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by "ensqualming" or feminizing the magicians. This triggers a tremendous struggle for power and the other mages turn against Rhialto. Hoping to reestablish his rightful place, Rhialto travels to other aeons to restore the missing Perciplex which projects the Mostrament, the constitution of the association. In his final adventure, Rhialto must, ultimately, travel to the very ends of time and space to confront an old adversary whom he had wronged and must commit further misdeeds to restore order.

Questionable Practices

Author : Eileen Gunn
Publisher : Small Beer Press
ISBN 13 : 1618730762
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Questionable Practices written by Eileen Gunn and published by Small Beer Press. This book was released on 2014-02-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good intentions aren’t everything. Sometimes things don’t quite go the way you planned. And sometimes you don’t plan. . . . This collection of sixteen stories (and one lonely poem) chart the many ways trouble can ensue. No actual human beings were harmed in the creation of this book. Stories from Eileen Gunn are always a cause for celebration. Where will she lead us? "Up the Fire Road" to a slightly alternate world. Four stories into steampunk’s heart. Into a very strange family gathering as they celebrate Christmas. Into the golem's heart. Never where we might expect.

Unclean

Author : Richard Beck
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
ISBN 13 : 071884047X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book Unclean written by Richard Beck and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I desire mercy, not sacrifice. Echoing Hosea, Jesus defends his embrace of the unclean in the Gospel of Matthew, seeming to privilege the prophetic call to justice over the Levitical pursuit of purity. And yet, as missional faith communities arewell aware, the tensions and conflicts between holiness and mercy are not so easily resolved. In an unprecedented fusion of psychological science and theological scholarship, Richard Beck describes the pernicious (and largely unnoticed) effects of the psychology of purity upon the life and mission of the church.

Araminta Station

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575109831
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Araminta Station written by Jack Vance and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel out along the galaxy's Perseid Arm. Branch off to follow the ten thousand stars of Mircea's Wisp. Eventually you will come to the Purple Rose System - three stars, Lorca, Sing and Syrene, that seem about to drift away into the void. Three planets circle Syrene. On one, Cadwal, there is Life. Long ago the Naturalist Society of Earth had listed Cadwal as a natural preserve. An administration centre had been set up and staffed to protect the planet from all exploitation. Araminta Station. Now, centuries later, the young Glawen Clattuc is beginning to wonder what the future may hold for him in the hierarchic, carefully ordered hereditary society that is life on Cadwal.

Quillifer

Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : S&S/Saga Press
ISBN 13 : 1481489984
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Quillifer written by Walter Jon Williams and published by S&S/Saga Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Walter Jon Williams is always fun, but this may be his best yet, a delight from start to finish, witty, colorful, exciting and amusing by turns, exquisitely written.” —George R. R. Martin From New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams comes an adventurous epic fantasy about a man who is forced to leave his comfortable life and find his fortune among goddesses, pirates, war, and dragons. Rogue. Joker. Lover. Reluctant soldier. Quillifer is a young man, serially in love and studying law, when a family tragedy throws him into the world to seek his fortune. A charmer rather than a fighter, he soon finds himself embroiled with a bandit gang, caught up in vicious court intrigues, and the plaything of an angry, beautiful, and very jealous goddess. While he struggles to establish himself in the capital, the country finds itself pitched into a civil war, and Quillifer, a unwilling soldier at best, finds himself caught up in the action, and able to tip the scales of fortune. Quillifer, with its engaging hero and his exploits with lovers, brawlers, warriors, and privateers, is a book that bursts with life. It’s the first volume in a new epic fantasy by bestselling and award-winning author Walter Jon Williams.

Benighted

Author : J. B. Priestley
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504083725
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Benighted written by J. B. Priestley and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic novel of psychological terror, an unrelenting storm forces three travelers to take shelter in a sinister mansion. A powerful storm rages through the Welsh mountains, driving three travelers off the road. Philip Waverton, his wife, Margaret, and their friend Roger Penderel are desperate to get out of the torrential downpour. Their only option is a mysterious old mansion, home to the bizarre Femm family and their brutish butler, Morgan. Although the Femms have plenty rooms in their home, they are hesitant to allow guests to stay in them. Instead, Penderel and the Wavertons must settle in for the night by the ground-floor fireplace and hope the storm will pass by morning. But as the hours go by, their situation only gets worse. The storm intensifies, and the dark house begins revealing its secrets—like what lies behind the two locked doors on the top floor. Now the travelers can only pray they survive until morning . . . Published in 1927, Benighted served as the basis for the 1932 James Whale film The Old Dark House, starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, and Gloria Stuart. It was J. B. Priestly’s second novel. “Priestley’s book is a beautifully written affair, oftentimes thrilling and touching, that this reader found perfect company during a few recent stormy days in late October. . . . The novel will surely manage to chill the modern-day reader.” —Fantasy Literature

The Eyes of the Overworld

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780583121279
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of the Overworld written by Jack Vance and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dealing with Dragons

Author : Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152045661
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Dealing with Dragons written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two volumes of Patricia C. Wrede's beloved, bestselling Enchanted Forest Chronicles!

How to Play Better Dominoes

Author : Miguel Lugo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780806982991
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (829 download)

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Download or read book How to Play Better Dominoes written by Miguel Lugo and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exercise your logic, challenge your brain, confound your opponents, and sharpen your domino skills so you'll win every time. From general principles to advanced techniques, this fully illustrated, in-depth guide takes you through every aspect of the game. "After...clearly explaining the basics...[he] introduces several challenging mental exercises designed to develop your understanding. The writer ends with four superbly explained games."--"Games."

Home Waters

Author : Gary Soucie
Publisher : Touchstone
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Waters written by Gary Soucie and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1991 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A host of writers take readers to their favorite fishing spots in a captivating collection of 55 pieces, many written especially for this book. Reflecting every nuance of the fly-fishing experience, culled from more than 100 years of writing, this is the book fly-fishers will want to come home to.