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What are Vance's best books outside of Dying Earth?

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What's the best book written by Jack Vance?

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>>19664212
Dying Earth

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Fuck chinkshit
and fuck chinkshitters

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Jack Vance

Whar book should I start with?

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>>17854945
>>17854992
This would sting except for the knowledge that your idiotic malice will prevent you from ever sharing the privilege of Vance's writing. My aplomb is restored.

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This glorious old fuck begs to differ.

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Will start reading all his famous novels and series, what I am in for guys?

>> No.10252820 [View]
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I present to you the goat science fiction and fantasy writer

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>>10220973
>>10220987
Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" would be good evidence to consider.

>>10220547
I forgot to ask, why did CAS use "KA" as his maker's mark?
>pillages BotNS
>leaves Vance's blessed leaves unscathed
Pic related.

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>If he’d been born south of the border, he’d be up for a Nobel Prize.
>If ‘The Last Castle’ or ‘The Dragon Masters’ had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation.
Is this true?

>> No.6908674 [View]
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Vance edition

Here's the charts, apologies if they're thumbnails.
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110612005642
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100710233344

>What SF/F books are you currently reading?
>What's your fav book by Jack Vance?
>What's your favorite book in the Dying Earth/Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy genre?

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>Where are the truly alien worlds?

This guy. Check out the "Dying Earth" series. It's set billions of the years in the future, a few decades before the sun dies.

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