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| Ace pb, 1965. Cover by Jack Gaughan. |
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| Cover by Jack Gaughan - again. |
Showing posts with label Jack Vance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Vance. Show all posts
Monday, 14 March 2016
ACE DOUBLE: MONSTERS IN ORBIT / THE WORLD BETWEEN AND OTHER STORIES
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
Saturday, 3 March 2012
THE FACELESS MAN
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| Ace paperback, 1987. Cover art by Peter Dana. |
"No one has ever seen him. But everyone knows him. The people of Shant swear by his name, and live in terror of him.
To break canton law is to defy the Faceless Man. To leave the canton itself is to defy the Faceless Man. To refuse to wear the torc that binds you to him is to defy the Faceless Man.
Gastel Etzwane has done all three.
And to defy the Faceless Man is death."
Sunday, 26 February 2012
THE DRAGON MASTERS
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| Mayflower paperback, 1972. Cover artist uncredited. |
"The race of man is growing old, but it's not yet ready to die - not while there are dragons still to kill!
The cross-bred dragon armies of the Men of Aerlith are the most appalling horrors ever to threaten the sanity of our future.
Termagants
three hundred reptilian giants with six legs apiece, the most fecund breeders of them all
Juggers
eighteen of them, growling amongst themselves, waiting for an opportunity to snap off a leg from any unwary groom
Murderers (striding and long-horned)
eighty-five of each, with scaly tails and eyes like crystals
Fiends
fifty-two powerful monsters, their tails tipped with spiked steel balls
Blue Horrors, Basics, Spider Dragons
the heaviest, most specialised creatures in the history of Science Fantasy"
Monday, 5 September 2011
SERVANTS OF THE WANKH
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| Ace paperback, 1969. Cover art: Jeff Jones. |
"Marooned on the strange planet Tschai, Adam Reith agreed to lead an expedition to return the princess Ylin Ylan, the flower of Cath, to her homeland halfway around the globe.
Monsters of land and sea lay before them, and beings both human and alien who might rob, kill or enslave them. Tschai was a large planet, an ancient planet, where four powerful alien races struggled for mastery while humans were treated as pawns; nothing would be easy for Reith on this journey.
But the girl's father was enormously wealthy, her homeland technologically sophisticated. If reith was ever to obtain human aid in returning to Earth, where better than Cath? If he could get there..."
This is quite an infamous paperback; Wankh sounds like a particular example of Commonwealth slang that Jack Vance was unaware of at the time. He was convinced to change the offending word for Wannek in later editions.
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