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Dream Castles: The Early Jack Vance, Vol 2
Dream Castles The Early Jack Vance Vol 2 Author:Jonathan Strahan (Editor), Terry Dowling (Editor), Jack Vance The second of three volumes. Jack Vance, Magician. Like the professional wizards and sorcerers he so often writes about, Jack Vance has long been a master magician when it comes to storytelling, turning out marvelous tricks with words, using his wonderful knack for names, detail and dialog, his fine eye for rendering the vagaries of ... more »the human condition to deliver high adventure set on fascinating worlds and in fabulous realms that are second to none.
Dream Castles presents a generous serving of this celebrated magician's 'performances,' ten fascinating tales from his long and influential career, among them his two Miro Hetzel adventures, 'The Dogtown Tourist Agency' and 'Freitzke s Turn', the intriguing 'The Narrow Land', a second outing for Jean Parlier in 'Cholwell's Chickens', and the classic space opera of 'Son of the Tree'.
Contents, 10 stories:
Introduction: Jack Vance, Magician • essay by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan;
The Dogtown Tourist Agency (1975);
Freitzke's Turn (1977);
I'll Build Your Dream Castle (variant of Dream Castle) (1947);