Description: Fine HC in fine DJ. 1st Edition Dust jacket by Tom Kidd Edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan 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. Limited: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition Lettered: 26 signed leatherbound copies housed in a custom traycase Table of Contents Introduction Hard-Luck Diggings (1948) The Temple of Han (1951) The Masquerade on Dicantropus (1951) Abercrombie Station (1952) Three-Legged Joe (1953) DP! (1953) Shape-Up (1953) Sjambak (1953) The Absent-Minded Professor (1954) When the Five Moons Rise (1954) The Devil on Salvation Bluff (1955) Where Hesperus Falls (1956) The Phantom Milkman (1956) Dodkin’s Job (1959)
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Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Original Language: English
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Type: Short Stories
Era: 2010s
Illustrator: Tom Kidd
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Publisher: Subterranean Press
Publication Year: 2010
Book Title: Hard-Luck Diggings : the Early Jack Vance
Topic: Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies
Number of Pages: 296 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Fiction
Author: Jonathan Strahan
Format: Hardcover
