Subterranean Press have announced yet another Jack Vance publication. It looks like they’re planning to publish his complete works at this rate! Here’s the blurb from their site: Dangeous Ways, a hefty (560 pages) omnibus gathering three of his best mystery novels: the Edgar Award-winning The Man in the Cage, the unforgettable hider-in-the-house thriller, Bad [...]

I just came across this new title from Subterranean Press. Hard-Luck Diggings is a collection of Vance’s earlier fiction, when he was trying to break into the writing industry. One could wonder therefore what the quality is like, but according to these reviews quoted by Subterranean it seems pretty good: First up, from SF Site: “Jack [...]

I’ve heard The Terror is excellent and sounds like it’s well worth a limited Subterranean Press edition. Also in the same news story its mentioned that Dan Simmons contributed a 26,000 word novella to the new Songs of Dying Earth anthology tribute to Jack Vance. I’m looking forward to getting my copy of this even [...]

A nifty idea for a book promotion – suggest your own 25 word epitaph for your tombstone! Subterranean Press are running this promo for Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book. Website for the book is here. My epitaph is: A man of talent and wit,Writer of words sad yet funny.Some said “a shame he didn’t see [...]

As I went ahead and ordered the Songs of Dying Earth tribute, I’m now on Subterranean’s mailing list. They have just published another Jack Vance title – a Jack Vance Reader, which includes Emphyrio, The Domains of Koryphon and The Languages of Pao. I haven’t read these titles, but they do sound interesting! Great cover: