Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One

Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One

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Publisher Description

A legend has to start somewhere...


As so many writers have said, it’s in the shorter and mid-length work that the storytelling craft is best learned. Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen such pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Master Jack Vance’s genre-defining career, from back when he first worked to pay the mortgage, buy the groceries, travel the world, eventually building his own private “dream castle” and starting a family.


Like any writer serious about staying in the game, we see him targeting the markets of the day, doing what was needed to meet the tastes of editors and their readerships while at the same time perfecting his own special way of doing things so that his name, his distinctive voice, stood a chance (in modern marketing parlance) of becoming a viable “brand.”


Hard-Luck Diggings brings that fascinating process to life in fine style. As well as serving up vintage entertainment from one of the field’s genuine masters, it provides an illuminating armchair tour of how the Jack Vance enterprise came to be, full of zest and life, the thrill of the upward climb and of so much more to be done. This is a book to be savoured with a twinkle in the eye, a knowing smile, but most of all, with a love of adventure and high romance firmly in place.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2015
March 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
440
Pages
PUBLISHER
Subterranean Press
SELLER
Subterranean Press
SIZE
977.9
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