Cugel's Saga
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780934438834
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780934438834
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,64 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466821965
A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 34,38 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Fiction in English, 1900- Texts
ISBN : 9780583121279
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cugel the clever (Fictitious character)
ISBN :
A four book volume containing "The Dying Earth," "The Eyes of the Overworld," "Cugal's Saga," and "Rhialto the Marvellous."
Author : Will Cuppy
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567923771
When it was first published in 1950, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody spent four months on The New York Times best-seller list, and Edward R. Murrow devoted more than two-thirds of one of his nightly CBS programs to a reading from Cuppy's historical sketches, calling it "the history book of the year." The book eventually went through eighteen hardcover printings and ten foreign editions, proof of its impeccable accuracy and deadly, imperishable humor.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 13,7 MB
Release : 2011-12-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0575109815
Rhialto the Marvellous takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by "ensqualming" or feminizing the magicians. This triggers a tremendous struggle for power and the other mages turn against Rhialto. Hoping to reestablish his rightful place, Rhialto travels to other aeons to restore the missing Perciplex which projects the Mostrament, the constitution of the association. In his final adventure, Rhialto must, ultimately, travel to the very ends of time and space to confront an old adversary whom he had wronged and must commit further misdeeds to restore order.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,14 MB
Release : 2023
Category :
ISBN :
"The Moon Moth by Jack Vance is a short story first published in 1961 set in an alien society on the planet Sirene. It remains to his fans, his most popular story. The story has our hero, Edwin Thissel, a consul newly arrived from Earth who has been ordered to stop an assassin, Haxo Angmark, and his detective work in unmasking the murderer. It combines sci-fi, a murder mystery and the intricacies of society culture formalities involving the wearing of elaborate masks that determine your status and communication through song and the playing of instruments...get it wrong and you could end up dead."--Publisher's website.
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 1619470330
Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 37,28 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1619470322
Author : Essa Hansen
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0316430714
One man and his sentient starship are all that stands between the multiverse and its total destruction in the second book of Essa Hansen’s brilliant, mind-bending space opera trilogy perfect for fans of The Expanse and A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. Caiden has been on the run for ten years in order to keep his Graven ship out of the hands of his old adversary, Threi. But when a childhood friend he once thought dead reappears to take it, he is lured into a game of hunter and hunted with the one person whose powers rival Threi’s; his sister, Abriss. Now to have a fighting chance against the most influential siblings in the multiverse, Caiden is left with no choice. He must unlock the Azura's true potential—which means finally confronting his own mysterious genetic origins. "Unpredictable and strikingly unique, Azura Ghost is science fiction without any limits to its imagination. Genre-breaking brilliance!"--David Dalglish, USA Today bestselling author "A blistering crash through bubble universes, seas of the luminous dead, and sleeping alien cities. Liquid-crystal star ships, living machines, reality-cleaving swordplay, and a dynasty whose words command your synapses and cells. Heart-heavy, astonishingly inventive, with language that burns like plasma. A biomechanical sucker punch of a book. The space opera you've been waiting for."--Micah Dean Hicks, author of Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones "Essa Hansen is one of the most imaginative authors in science fiction today, and in AZURA GHOST she delivers a thrill ride of a story."--Michale Mammay, author of Planetside "Azura Ghost is a magnificent achievement. Hansen juggles multiple universes as if they were fireballs, without ever dropping a single one. Like the best of science fiction, Azura Ghost asks the questions that we often fear to ask ourselves: about the extent of our responsibility in this world, what it means to choose, the limits of empathy, and the inevitability of loss; and like the best of science fiction, it asks them both at the scale of the cosmos, and at the level of a single human heart. The novel's ambition is upheld by soaring prose, which does full justice to the scope of Hansen's imagination. An instant classic." -- Gautam Bhatia, co-ordinating editor of Strange Horizons and author of The Wall and The Horizon