Most Significant SF & Fantasy Boo

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 25 09:47:36 CST 2006


Read either the Dirdir or the Pnume (both featured in
the very great Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials). 
I'm pretty sure I ended up with copies of both, but
will keep an eye out.  Meanwhile ...

http://www.jackvance.com/vance/market/

http://www.jackvance.com/

And two guys at work received consecutively numbered
sets of these in crates stright outta Italy a while
back ...

http://www.vanceintegral.com/

--- David Casseres <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:

> Vance wrote a trilogy I greatly enjoyed, in which
> some humans are
> marooned on a planet that has three intelligent
> species.  The books
> are called Servants of the Wankh, The Dirdir, and
> The Pnume.
> 
> Good luck finding them, though.  I've tried the
> local libraries and
> used bookstores with no luck.
> 
> On 11/16/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > Remember, this was a book club's list, tehy're
> > actually pimping this stuff, so ...
> >
> > But where to start with Vance?  I maybe read
> something
> > long ago because of Barlowe's Guide to ETs ...
> >
> > --- Michel Ryckx <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > About 30.  No Stanislav Lem, polish (Solaris),
> no
> > > Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes), french.
> > > Nevil Shute is not really SF, neither is
> Vonnegut,
> > > etc.
> > >
> > > And no van Vogt? no Jack Vance? ...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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