Illustrations et premiére page de
quelques nouvelles
1950-1952
The World-Thinker
Le Chateau
de vos rêves / I'll Build Your Dream Castle
Pas
de veine / Hard-Luck Diggins
Un raccourci pour Sanatori / Sanatoris Short-Cut
L'Inénarrable
McInch / the Unspeakable McInch
Les
Potiers de Firsk / The Potters of Firsk
art:
Edd Cartier
New Bodies for Old
art:
Virgil Finlay
The ballet was
projected in three-dimensional miniature.
A blonde girl,
young and sweet, sat on the edge of a pool, in a cloud of silver
bubbles.
Men of the Ten books
Editorial Blurb (Startling
Stories - mars 1951)
Ever since THE WORLD-THINKER appeared in
Summer, 1945, TWS, we have been asked, "Who is Jack Vance?" His identity
has been faultily surmised to be everything from a house by-line to
another pseudonym for the redoubtable Henry Kuttner. Actually he is a young
(thirty-ish) alumnus of the University of California and World War Two
Merchant Marine, where he was torpedoed twice.
By his own account he
first thought about star travel on his seventh birthday and has not stopped
yet.
Hallmarks of a Vance story are a crisp polychromatic imagination,
swift, well-integrated action and a solid bed of human idealism, often
nurtured ingeniously into flowerings of cynicism. His stories and the people
and other creatures in them have a way of springing vividly to life -
for proof, just read this story!
The Kokod warriors
Je ne voyais pas Magnus Ridolph comme illustré ci-dessus, plutôt
comme l'acteur Peter Ustinov avec une belle barbe blanche .
La Planéte des
Damnés / Planet of the
Damned
