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Jack Vance
SF great Jack Vance, creator of the Dying Earth, Demon Princes and many other series of stories and novels has died at 96.
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/05/jack-vance-1916-2013/
A superb and influential writer.
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/05/jack-vance-1916-2013/
A superb and influential writer.
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My favourite bar none.
Here are some quotes for your enjoyment:
"The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?"
"So now, be off! Or I inflict upon you the Spell of the Macroid Toe, whereupon the signalized member swells to the proportions of a house."
"Perhaps I am over-prompt; perhaps I overindulge my vanity; perhaps I contravene the normal decorum of the village - but is there reason why we should not repair to my chamber, and there amuse ourselves?"
"Cugel is innocently proud of his innovations, but I have heard small children exchanging theories of more compelling interest."
"At that place a great magician named Makke the Maugifer built a manse and ruled the land with his mauging magic. He mauged east and he mauged west, north and south; persons could lift their eyes to his face once, or with effort twice, but never three times, so strong was his maugery."
Marvellous writer. RIP Jack Vance.