Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five, by Jack Vance
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Avenues into the Future...''Truth to tell, we're tourists, out to see the wonders of the universe.''--Paddy Blackthorn, The RappareeGrand journeys among the stars--pursuits, quests, explorations and encounters. These were very much science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Jack Vance's stock in trade, whether to have Kirth Gersen roam the Oikumene and Beyond tracking down his five Demon Princes or to strand Adam Reith on far-off Tschai. Or, as in this present volume, to take Earthstyle opera to the nonhuman folk of distant Rlaru, to study the much coveted treepod dwellings on Iszm, to follow the clues in five gold bands to the knowledge that lets a handful of races control all space travel in the universe, or to endure servitude at the hands of ruthless alien overlords.Just as Vance sought adventure and the joys of a fulfilled life by travelling the highways and byways of his own beloved Earth, so he had his heroes and heroines do the same on other worlds. The five early tales featured in ''Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five'' take us on a fascinating selection of such journeys, showing us how the future was in the earlier years of his writing career.And inevitably, as with storytellers from Homer to Shakespeare, Dickens to Austen, Tolstoy to Twain, our Grandmaster also used his craft as something on which to hang personal preoccupations, fascinations and longings. For as with any good writer, the completions and payoffs of these otherworldly travels often deliver more than just a satisfactory conclusion to the affairs on hand and a few hours' pleasant diversion for the reader. Vance also put us in touch with things beyond the page, delivering an awareness of a universe and a future for humanity filled with possibility, leaving us--as the best writers, artists and makers always do--with feelings of connection with something larger.
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- Brand: Subterranean
- Published on: 2015-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.09" h x 1.53" w x 6.96" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 472 pages
Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five, by Jack Vance From the Inside Flap Avenues into the Future...
"Truth to tell, we're tourists, out to see the wonders of the universe." Paddy Blackthorn, The Rapparee
Grand journeys among the stars pursuits, quests, explorations and encounters. These were very much science fiction and fantasy Grandmaster Jack Vance's stock in trade, whether to have Kirth Gersen roam the Oikumene and Beyond tracking down his five Demon Princes or to strand Adam Reith on far-off Tschai. Or, as in this present volume, to take Earth style opera to the non human folk of distant Rlaru, to study the much coveted tree pod dwellings on Iszm, to follow the clues in five gold bands to the knowledge that lets a handful of races control all space travel in the universe, or to endure servitude at the hands of ruthless alien overlords.
Just as Vance sought adventure and the joys of a fulfilled life by travelling the highways and byways of his own beloved Earth, so he had his heroes and heroines do the same on other worlds. The five early tales featured in "Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five" take us on a fascinating selection of such journeys, showing us how the future was in the earlier years of his writing career.
And inevitably, as with storytellers from Homer to Shakespeare, Dickens to Austen, Tolstoy to Twain, our Grandmaster also used his craft as something on which to hang personal preoccupations, fascinations and longings. For as with any good writer, the completions and pay offs of these otherworldly travels often deliver more than just a satisfactory conclusion to the affairs on hand and a few hours' pleasant diversion for the reader. Vance also put us in touch with things beyond the page, delivering an awareness of a universe and a future for humanity filled with possibility, leaving us as the best writers, artists and makers always do with feelings of connection with something larger.
About the Author Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "The Last Castle," He lives in Oakland, California.Jonathan Strahan has co-edited The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy series of anthologies for HarperCollins Australia, co-edits the Science Fiction: The Best of . . . and Fantasy: The Best of . . . anthology series with Karen Haber for Simon & Schuster/ibooks, edits the Best Short Novels anthology series for the Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club, and co-edited The Locus Awards for Eos with Charles N. Brown. He is also the Reviews Editor for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fields, and reviews for the magazine regularly. He is currently working on The New Space Opera II.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Five Great Jack Vance Novellas for a great price! By ralph blackburn The Early Vance Vol. 5:Grand Crusades by Jack Vance- Five exciting and inventive stories from Jack Vance.THE RAPPAREE( also published as The Five Gold Bands), is a galactic treasure hunt with nothing less than the entire universe and especially the Earth at stake.CRUSADE TO MAXUS, In a bleak future, overthrowing a harsh regime becomes a crisis.GOLD AND IRON(also published as Planet of the Damned and Slaves of the Klau)Another take on combating an alien menace and freeing mankind.THE HOUSES OF ISZM, pulp SF with an unusual pretext.SPACE OPERA, bringing music to the stars was never so fraught with danger and misunderstanding.All of these stories are, as the title suggests early works and all are novellas and some would later become novels. Yes, there is some of pulp leavings mixed within their pedigree, but that also makes these stories all the more fun to read. Most assuredly well worth the price of admission.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. 5 Novellas By Manly Reading Grand Crusades appears to be the final volume in the "Early Jack Vance" series, and it’s a departure from the previous 4 volumes, in that it contains 5 novellas in almost 500 pages as opposed to 10-12 short stories. Of those 5 novellas, only "Crusade to Maxus" is genuinely difficult to find: all of the others can be picked up in used paperbacks comparatively inexpensively (certainly, more inexpensively than buying this volume in print, for example - but that still won't get you Crusade to Maxus). All of these novellas can be classed as space operas, although one only gets there on a technicality.To be honest, I'm not a huge fan of "The Rapparee", aka The Five Gold Bands. Its a nice little space adventure story, with an irritating Irish protagonist, that happens to have been written by Jack Vance. It is not, however, "Vancian" in any sense of the word - even less so than Vandals in the Void, for all that was written for a YA market. Originally this appeared in Startling Stories in 1950, which explains things to a degree: its very early Vance, and expressly written for the pulps at a cent a word. It may even have been written (or at least have a scene included) for a particular cover - go and google it after reading the story (or now, if you like).Um. Well, basically we have an Irish thief - although he may be more, its never quite clear - trying to steal the secret to (warp drive) spaceflight from the descendants of the accidental inventor thereof, who are no longer "human" due to occupying alien planets (although of human stock, they have mutated or adapted in just a few generations so as to be quite alien). Amazingly, he succeeds, only to find the secret is a riddle hidden away across the stars. So, accompanied by a feisty love-interest (oops, spoiler!) he sets off to take the secret back to Earth.Don’t worry if my plot summary makes no sense. The story itself is kind of like that too.All you get here is an action adventure mystery story set in space with aliens. No more, no less. Its not classic Vance - hell, its not classic anything - but you wont damage any brain cells reading it, and you will have a little fun - if you can stop wanting to throttle the hero.Crusade to Maxus is the shortest entry here, and the only one never reprinted anywhere. It’s a fairly bleak and muscular little piece, for all it relies on a bit of a maguffin in the end. It does raise some interesting questions about morality actually, but its hard to really cheer for anyone in particular here, other than for our hero, simply because he is our hero.Gold and Iron (aka Slaves of the Klau, aka Planet of the Damned) is an early forerunner to Big Planet or Planet of Adventure, only without all the weird settings, just the various weird cultures all clashing together. In a first-contact future, Roy Barch is abducted together with golden-girl alien love interest, duly escapes, and tries to forge a weird coalition of fellow ex-slaves into a shared goal of escape offplanet rather than mere survival in a cave. The title here refers to Barch's "iron" will - and the drive and pluck of earthmen generally - and compares it the malleability of the golden woman of the stars. Its also very bleak.To make up for all this, Houses of Iszm and Space Opera are both quite a bit lighter. Iszm combines some beautiful scene-setting in the titular tree-houses with some suitably exciting action adventure and intrigue back on Earth - but this is not a lot of the story per se. Its good but not great.Finally, only Jack Vance could write a novel called Space Opera, and get away with having it actually being about an Opera company in space. Its full of lighthearted jabs at the artistic temperament, assumptions of cultutal superiority, Opera vs "real music" (ie the kazoo, which Mr Vance himself played), and in between this is a series of picaresque adventures on a variety of worlds, some inhabited by aliens, and, in one memorable case, a prison colony with a sideline in plastic surgery.There is an almost incidental love interest, and indeed our protagonist, Roger Wool, is more in the nature of a chronicler of events than an action hero. Certainly he is no Cugel, but the structure and form of the novel otherwise has some parallels with The Eyes of the Overworld written a year or so later.This is best read purely for the amusement it provides, which is considerable, but it is a short novel not part of a wider series (or, perhaps, even the Gaean Reach milieu). There are some memorable moments, but this is not Lyonesse, or Dying Earth, Planet of Adventure, or Demon Princes.All of this is just good fun, with Vance's distinctive voice throughout, and all that should satisfy you for a few hours.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A worthy addition to your Vance library or a nice donation to the local public library after you have read the stories of course By Paul F. Brooks Grand Crusades - The Early Jack Vance Volume 5 (anthology - science fiction - 0671 - 01-10-2016) Jack Vance (1916-2013) was a prolific science fiction author whose many notable novels have been out of print for many years. Subterranean Press has been reprinting handsome hard bound collections of his works and in 2015 released volume 5. "Grand Crusades" includes 3 previously published novels: "Space Opera"(1965) - "House of Iszm"(1964) - "Five Gold Bands"(1963) aka "The Space Pirate"(1953) and two novelettes. A helpful editors introduction and a delightful cover illustration makes this book a worthy addition to your Vance library or a nice donation to the local public library after you have read the stories of course!
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