Jack Vance
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John Holbrook Vance was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and mysteries. He wrote several mystery novels under pen names, including Ellery Queen.
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Vance's The Languages of Pao was originally published in the December 1957 issue of Satellite Science Fiction, under what is likely the last SF magazine cover by Frank R. Paul
Jack Vance playing the jazz banjo and kazoo in 1979 in San Francisco
French edition of The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, illustrating "The Kokod Warriors"
Vance's Hugo Award-winning novella The Dragon Masters was the cover story on the August 1962 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction.
Vance's novella "Gateway to Strangeness" was the cover story in the August 1962 issue of Amazing Stories, illustrated by Alex Schomburg. Under the title "Dust of Far Suns", it became the title piece in a Vance story collection in 1981.Awards 8
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Howard HawksAlso in The Criminal Code (1931)
Walter HustonAlso in The Criminal Code (1931)
Andy DevineAlso in The Criminal Code (1931)
Constance CummingsAlso in The Criminal Code (1931)
Fredric BrownAlso won Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel
L. Sprague de CampAlso won Hugo Award for Best Related WorkAbout this person
Country
United StatesCategory
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1916 to 2013 · aged 96
Written about in
30 languages
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