Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk

Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction | Books | guardian.co.uk.

“[Jack Vance] published more than 60 books, some under pseudonyms, among them 11 mystery novels, three of them as Ellery Queen. In addition, he wrote some of the first, and perhaps best, examples of “planetary adventures”. He, along with Edgar Rice Burroughs in the early years of the 20th century, and his contemporaries Leigh Brackett, Philip José Farmer and Edmond Hamilton, helped to create the idiom, and his novel Big Planet (which first appeared in a magazine in 1952, and was subsequently revised and expanded) is probably his best of this kind.”

60 books! Can you imagine?