Wild Thyme, Green Magic

Vance, Jack

ISBN 10: 1596062266 / ISBN 13: 9781596062269

Published by Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, U.S.A., 2009

About this Item

1st ed/1st printing, SIGNED by the author on the title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; the boards are solid and unblemished, and the lovely dust jacket is in a protective Brodart cover. No price clippings, no remainder marks. You'll feel elated, brimming with panache and elan, like Cugel the Clever, having just eluded the clutches of both Iucouno the Laughing Magician and Chun the Unavoidable, the melancholy light of the dying sun faltering above you as you settle back to appreciate the many excellences of this treasured volume. NOTE: NOT the limited or numbered edition. Also, there is a light smudge to the page sides and a tiny chip to the bottom of the front board.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wild Thyme, Green Magic
• Publisher: Subterranean Press, Burton, Michigan, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1596062266
• ISBN 13: 9781596062269
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

When Jack Vance decided to become a writer, a million-word-a-year man as he put it so pragmatically at the time, he also gave fantastic literature one of its most cherished and distinctive voices. Though primarily a novelist throughout his long and distinguished career, this Hugo, Nebula, Edgar and World Fantasy Award-winning Grand Master also produced many short and mid-length works.

Wild Thyme, Green Magic collects an alien s handful of these wondrous tales, among them the author s first-ever sale, The World-Thinker, the unforgettable Chateau D If, the stylish Green Magic, the macabre, gothic Seven Exits from Bocz, and The Seventeen Virgins, a rousing adventure with Cugel the Clever set in the author s acclaimed far-future Dying Earth.

Reviews

The œspun-silver� prose of fantasy grand master Vance (Lurulu) illuminates 12 delightful stories, some with intriguing afterwords by the author. Insightfully introduced by editors Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan, this showcase follows Vance's career from his very first publication, 1945's œThe World-Thinker,� through 1961's fast-paced novelette œThe Augmented Agent� and 1974's Dying Earth story œThe Seventeen Virgins� to œWild Thyme and Violets,� the outline for an Italy-inspired gothic romance that reads like a surreal flash fiction novel and was first published in 2005. Most of the focus is on Vance's work from the 1960s and 1970s, which ranges from dramatic fantasy (œGreen Magic�) to classic science fiction parables (œUllward's Retreat�). Two charming biographical essays by Vance's late wife, Norma, round out the collection on a tender note. (June)
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