Vance: 482 books
The Jack Vance Lexicon
The coined words of Jack Vance: from abiloid to zygage
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2016
Jack Vance is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master, and winner of numerous sci-fi and fantasy awards spanning a 60-year career. His unparalleled knack for coining words is recognized among the traits which delight his readership.
In 1992, Daniel Temianka compiled Vance's...
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Nebula and World Fantasy Grand Master Jack Vance is one of the most admired and cherished writers of science fiction and fantasy in the world, and is one of the truly important and influential storytellers of the 20th century. From his first published story "The World Thinker" in 1945 to...
by Jack Vance
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: June 13, 2018
C’est avec l’humour irrésistible qui le caractérisait que Jack Vance, grand maître incontesté de la science-fiction, a écrit cette autobiographie. Le lecteur n’y trouvera pas de détails pompeux sur les dessous de la fabrication de ses romans, mais découvrira un enfant discret, un adolescent...
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Enjoy the ride as Jack Vance takes you on an informal trip through his life. Starting with his memories of childhood in a privileged San Francisco family, Vance leads us through lean times, picking fruit during the Depression, pranks at Cal, experiences at sea during the War, his early writing, and life...
Suggestible You
The Curious Science of Your Brain's Ability to Deceive, Transform, and Heal
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
National Geographic's riveting narrative explores the world of placebos, hypnosis, false memories, and neurology to reveal the groundbreaking science of our suggestible minds. Could the secrets to personal health lie within our own brains? Journalist Erik Vance explores the surprising ways our expectations...
by Vance Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Are You Ready to Do Something Extraordinary?
Vance Brown believes most men are discouraged. They're worn out and wondering if their best days are behind them. Vance knows the feeling. There was a time he felt more dead than alive, but his friends still believed in him. "Have courage,"...
Hillbilly Blues
een memoir over een familie en een cultuur in crisis
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Hillbilly Blues is analyse van een cultuur in crisis - die van de blanke Amerikaanse arbeidersklasse. Niet eerder werd er zo scherp, en van binnenuit, over deze bevolkingsgroep geschreven. J. D. Vance vertelt hoe het is om geboren te worden met sociale en regionale ellende als een wurgkoord om je...
by Jack Vance
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 20, 2019
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 20, 2019
De vijftien verhalen in deze bundel dateren grotendeels uit de eerste twaalf jaar van Vance’s carrière als auteur — 1945 tot 1957 — toen hij vooral voor de pulpmagazines schreef: Thrilling Wonder Stories, Astounding, Startling Stories, Planet Stories, ... Ook in deze vroege verhalen zijn Vance’s...
by Louis Joseph Vance
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
14 works of Louis Joseph Vance American novelist (1879-1933)
This ebook presents a collection of 14 works of Louis Joseph Vance. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected.
Table of Contents: - Alias the Lone Wolf - Joan Thursday - Linda Lee, Incorporated...
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A legend has to start somewhere...
As so many writers have said, it’s in the shorter and mid-length work that the storytelling craft is best learned. Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen such pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Master Jack Vance’s genre-defining career,...
Hillbilly Elegy
A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD
**"You will not read a more important book about America this year.**"—The Economist
"A riveting...
by Jonathan F. Vance
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable...
The First William P. McGivern Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®
25 Classic Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
William P. McGivern, a popular and prolific science fiction writer in the 1940s and 1950s (under his own name as well as the pseudonyms Gerald Vance and P.F. Costello), later achieved fame as a noir and hardboiled mystery author of such classics as "The Big Heat." The First William P. McGivern Science...
by Jack Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Tweehonderd jaar na ontvangst van een signaal uit de richting van Carina 4269 komt de Explorator IV aan bij de oude gele ster en haar enige planeet: een grijsbruine Aarde-achtige wereld. Nauwelijks zijn verkenners Adam Reith en Paul Waunder eropuit gestuurd, of een projectiel vernietigt het moederschip....