'Jack Vance is one of the best writers producing sf and The Blue World is a showcase of his virtues' Speculative Bulletin 'An unusual, well-developed setting and situation' Analog 'His talent...has seldom been better used' New Worlds Jack Vance is universally recognized as one of the most important and trail-blazing writers of sf The Blue World is classic Vance: a carefully thought-out world, a stratified, static society and a man in conflict with it
Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering and journalism at the University of California. During WW2 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 Master (for which he won his first Hugo), Big Planet, the Anome and the Lyonesse sequences.
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