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Excerpt from K. J. Parker's THE COMPANY

Quite underwhelmed with Jack Vance's Tale of the Dying Earth , I relegated the omnibus to the book I read during my breaks at work, and I decided to give K. J. Parker's latest a shot a few days back. I'm now a little over 100 pages into The Company and it's pretty good thus far. For more info about this title: Canada , USA , Europe . Here's a sample for you to peruse. It was to supposed to be an exclusive...

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SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH Update — Dean Koontz Turns in Signature Pages

We’re making steady progress on Songs of the Dying Earth, the Jack Vance tribute anthology edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. All of the stories but three are in hand and have been copyedited, and the signature pages for the limited edition are making the rounds. (Over 350 of the 500 copies [...]

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Latest Shipping Update — Limited Jack Vance Reader Now Shipping

Our shippers are still dealing with the overload, now with even more lettered and limited editions arriving to take their place in the queue. Here’s where things stand. Right now, copies of the limited edition of The Jack Vance Reader are being packed up and sent to individuals and small retailers. As soon as that [...]

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Jack Vance does not have a chin. Under his beard is knowledge of the future.

http://project-apollo.net/text/rpg.html The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Cliches In any futuristic setting, the standard uniform for female soldiers and special agents will include a miniskirt and thigh-high stockings. The standard uniform for all male characters, military or not, will include an extraordinarily silly and enormous hat. Jack Vance was there first!

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Stock Updates — Jack Vance, Lucius Shepard, David Weber, and more

A number of recent SubPress releases are selling very well, and expected to go out of print soon, including: – The Best of Lucius Shepard (Lucius Shepard): Fewer than 300 trade copies remain, with the limited edition sold out prepublication – Worlds of Weber (David Weber): Fewer than 400 of the 2000 copies printed remain, with several [...]

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KULL and THE JACK VANCE READER Slipcases en Route to Our Offices

We’ve just received word from our supplier that the slipcases for Robert E. Howard’s Kull: Exile of Atlantis and The Jack Vance Reader have shipped and are en route to our offices. With a little luck, we’ll begin shipping books by the end of next week. We will, of course, keep everyone posted on our [...]

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Praise for THE JACK VANCE READER From SFFWORLD.

Straight to the goods: “The Jack Vance Reader provides a snapshot of Vance’s mastery over language for those who may be most familiar with his writing through The Dying Earth saga. Furthermore, this volume will be a great companion piece to the other volumes Subterranean is publishing of and in homage to Vance’s work.”

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Dean Koontz to Sign the Limited Edition of SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH

We’re more than pleased to announce that, in addition to contributing an appreciation to our Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth, Dean Koontz has agreed to sign the entire 500 copy limited edition in addition to the lettered edition. If that’s not enough good news for one day, we also just received “Sylgarmo’s [...]

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LOCUS AWARDS, Praise from Gardner Dozois, and a new David Prill Short Story

Many thanks for those who voted in the recent Locus Awards poll. We not only had four of the top ten short story collections — The Winds of Marble Arch (Connie Willis); The Jack Vance Treasury (Jack Vance) New Amsterdam (Elizabeth Bear); Ascendancies (Bruce Sterling) — SubPress was voted second place in the Best Publisher/Imprint [...]

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Dean Koontz — More SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH News

We’ve just received word that Dean Koontz will be gracing us with an appreciation for the Jack Vance Tribute Anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth, and, at a minimum, signing the lettered edition. We’ve written to him to see if his schedule will allow him to sign the limited as well, but won’t know that [...]

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Box Of Paperbacks: Space Opera

The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Space Opera by Jack Vance (1965) (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps...

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Just so you know, THIS is Vancian magic

Selections from Jack Vance's The Dying Earth. The tomes which held Turjan's sorcery lay on a long table of black steel or were thrust helter-skelter into shelves. These were volumes compiled by many wizards of the past, untidy folios collected by the Sage, leather-bound librams setting forth the syllables of a hundred powerful spells, so cogent that Turjan's brain could know but four at a time. Turjan...

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Robert A. Heinlein and Jack Vance Shipping Updates

We’ve finished shipping all individual, retailer, and wholesaler orders of Project Moonbase and Others (Robert A. Heinlein) and The Jack Vance Reader (Jack Vance). We’ve also sent out to have the cases for the assorted limited and lettered editions done, which is likely to take a few months. We’ll keep everyone posted via our newsletter.

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Jack Vance — SONGS OF THE DYING EARTH Update

More Progress on the Jack Vance tribute anthology, Songs of the Dying Earth. You can add SubPress favorite Mike Resnick and Jeff VanderMeer to the list of those who’ve turned in their stories. Also, we have a bit of a surprise. Jack Vance himself has penned a short preface to the volume, which will make [...]

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THE JACK VANCE READER by Jack Vance

Jack Vance is science fiction’s world-builder par excellence, a multi-award-winning Grand Master and much-loved doyen of the art of the planetary adventure. In a career spanning 59 years, Vance has been responsible — more than any other writer in the field — for creating exotic alien cultures and living, breathing worlds, among them Tschai, Durdane [...]