Howard and James’ Ten Vance Favorites
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Howard and James’ Ten Vance Favorites Recently the Skull issued a decree to various minions, bonded thralls, pseudo-sandestins, and temps from the secretarial pool to provide for his edification a list of their favorite works from the great and powerful wordsinger Jack Vance. Much of these replies were inferior, riddled...
Classic Covers: More From Jack Vance
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. With hundreds of titles in dozens of editions in as many different languages, a catalog of Jack Vance’s prolific output is a feast of diverse and changing visual styles over many years. With cover illustrations as varied as Frazetta-style sword-and-sorcery, heady new age semiotics, surreal horror, literal Tolkien fantasy,...
The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. The Dying Earth: A Case for Sword-and-Sorcery by Brian Murphy Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing. ~ back cover blurb, Tales of the Dying Earth, Tor Books In 1950...
What is the Dying Earth?
What is the Dying Earth? by Bill Ward “A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and bright rivers, and the sun was a blazing white ball. Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is feeble and red. The continents have sunk and risen. A million cities have lifted towers, have fallen to dust. In place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live. There is...
Where to Start With Jack Vance
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Where to Start With Jack Vance by Bill Ward John Holbrook “Jack” Vance (1916-2013) was an extraordinarily prolific and award-winning author across multiple genres, but it is for his work in the science fiction field that he is most celebrated. ‘Science Fiction’ as a genre and marketing category is an extremely big...
Vancian Quotations
We’re celebrating the release of DCC Dying Earth all this Month with articles in honor of Jack Vance. Vancian Quotations by Bill Ward “When you want to describe something that’s flamboyant, weird and strange, anything a little bit outrageous, wicked or nasty, you don’t do it by exposition, which can become long-winded and tiresome. You have one of your characters describe it to somebody else . . . this is almost a trade secret:...
Classic Covers: Jack Vance
One of the benefits of being an extraordinarily productive and highly-reprinted genre writer during the mass market paperback publishing boom of the mid-twentieth century is you get a terrific amount of amazing visual art forever associated with your name. Jack Vance, author of over 60 books (whenever you see ‘over’ a certain number, that’s a pretty big clue that the author in question is so prolific that it’s...
Jack Vance’s Influence on Dungeons & Dragons
Jack Vance’s Influence on Dungeons & Dragons by Bill Ward “Turjan … descended to his study … The tomes which held Turjan’s sorcery lay on the 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...
Erol Otus Sits In On the Next Keep Crawlin
Legendary artist Erol Otus sits in with Mike and Brendan tonight for a very special episode of Keep Crawlin! 8:00 p.m. EST, Wednesday, July 28 Keep Crawlin’ with Mike and Brendan Hosts: Brendan LaSalle and Michael Curtis This week on Keep Crawlin’ it’s time to straighten up the basement and wash Brendan’s Tam. Their special guest this week will be none other than fantasy illustrator extraordinaire, Erol Otus!...
Final Countdown! Join Us For the Countdown Special for DCC Dying Earth!
Tonight’s the night! The sun is setting on the DCC Dying Earth Kickstarter! The Dying Earth is a world on the edge of extinction. A world where magic has supplanted technology and humanity fights for survival. And our Kickstarter campaign to bring that world to life for DCC RPG is about to come to a close! Tonight, starting at 8:00 p.m. EST, we’ll be hosting a special countdown show on the Official Goodman Games Twitch...
Join Us for the DCC Dying Earth Countdown Show
The end of the campaign is nigh! The Dying Earth is a world on the edge of extinction. A world where magic has supplanted technology and humanity fights for survival. And our Kickstarter campaign to bring that world to life for DCC RPG is about to come to a close! Tomorrow night, starting at 8:00 p.m. EST, we’ll be hosting a special countdown show on the Official Goodman Games Twitch Channel that will bring the current...
The Other Cugel’s Saga: Michael Shea’s A Quest for Simbilis
The Other Cugel’s Saga: Michael Shea’s A Quest for Simbilis by Fletcher Vredenburgh At the end of The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Jack Vance’s rogue, Cugel the Clever, found himself once again stranded in the very same distant part of the Dying Earth to which he’d been sent at the beginning of the book by Iucounu the Laughing Magician, on a mission to retrieve a magical lens. And that’s where he remained for over a...
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