title: Jack Vance bibliography
text: # Jack Vance bibliography
  
  This is a complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance.
  
  ## Works
  
  ### Fantasy
  
  **The Dying Earth**
  
  * The Dying Earth (author's preferred title: Mazirian the Magician, collection of linked stories, 1950)
  * The Eyes of the Overworld (author's preferred title: Cugel the Clever, novel 1966)
  * Cugel's Saga (author's preferred title: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight, novel, 1983)
  
      The Laughing Magician (omnibus containing The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga, 2007)
  * Rhialto the Marvellous (collection of linked stories, 1984)
  
  **Lyonesse**
  
  * Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (1983) (also titled Lyonesse and Suldrun's Garden)
  * Lyonesse: The Green Pearl (1985) (also titled The Green Pearl)
  * Lyonesse: Madouc (1989) (also titled Madouc)
  
  ### Science fiction
  
  **The Demon Princes Series**
  
  * The Star King (1964)
  * The Killing Machine (1964)
  * The Palace of Love (1967)
  * The Face (1979)
  * The Book of Dreams (1981)
  
  **The Cadwal Chronicles**
  
  * Araminta Station (1987)
  * Ecce and Old Earth (1991)
  * Throy (1992)
  
  **Alastor**
  
  * Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
  * Marune: Alastor 933 (1975)
  * Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)
  * Both The Gray Prince and Maske: Thaery have backgrounds in the Alastor Cluster.
  
  **Durdane**
  
  * The Anome (alternate title: The Faceless Man, 1973)
  * The Brave Free Men (1973)
  * The Asutra (1974)
  
  **Tschai**
  
  * City of the Chasch (author's preferred title: The Chasch. 1968)
  * Servants of the Wankh (reissue title: The Wannek, 1969)
  * The Dirdir (1969)
  * The Pnume (1970)
  
  ### Non-series science fiction novels
  
  * The Five Gold Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953)
  * Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953)
  * To Live Forever (1956)
  * Big Planet (1957)
  * The Languages of Pao (1958)
  * Slaves of the Klau (original title: Planet of the Damned; alternate title preferred by Vance: Gold and Iron) (1958)
  * Space Opera (1965)
  * The Blue World (1966)
  * Emphyrio (1969)
  * The Gray Prince (author's preferred title: The Domains of Koryphon) (1974)
  * Showboat World (author's preferred title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet) (1975)
  * Maske: Thaery (1976)
  * Night Lamp (1996)
  * Ports of Call (1998)
  * Lurulu (2004) — sequel to Ports of Call, completing a short multi-part novel
  
  ### Selected novellas
  
  * "Overlords of Maxus" (1951 February issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories)
  * "Son of the Tree" (1951; reissued as a novel in 1964)
  * "Abercrombie Station" and its sequel "Cholwell's Chickens" (both 1952; two novellas later issued as Monsters in Orbit in 1965)
  * "Telek" (1952)
  * "The Houses of Iszm" (1954; reissued as a novel in 1964)
  * "The Miracle Workers", (1958)
  * "The Moon Moth" (1961)
  * "Gateway to Strangeness" (1962) (also titled "Dust of Far Suns" and "Sail 25")
  * "The Dragon Masters" (1963 - Hugo Award Winner)
  * "The Brains of Earth" (author's preferred title: "Nopalgarth") (1966)
  * "The Last Castle" (1966, Nebula Award winner; illustrated by Alicia Austin in 1980)
  * "Three-Legged Joe" (short story) (1953; featured in Startling Stories)
  * "Dodkin's Job"
  
  ### Mystery/thrillers
  
  * Take My Face (1957), as "Peter Held"
  * Isle of Peril (1957), as "Alan Wade" (also titled Bird Isle)
  * Strange People, Queer Notions (1958)
  * The Man In the Cage (1960)
  * The Four Johns (1964), as "Ellery Queen" (also titled Four Men Called John, UK 1976)
  * A Room to Die In (1965), as "Ellery Queen"
  * The Fox Valley Murders (1966)
  * The Madman Theory (1966), as "Ellery Queen"
  * The Pleasant Grove Murders (1967)
  * The Deadly Isles (1969)
  * Bad Ronald (1973)
  * The View from Chickweed's Window (1979)
  * The House on Lily Street (1979)
  * The Dark Ocean (1985)
  
  ### Collections
  
  * Future tense. 1964.
  * The World Between and Other Stories (1965)
  * The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)
  * Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969)
  * The Worlds of Jack Vance (1973)
  * Galactic Effectuator (this title is an editorial invention for the collected Miro Hetzel stories "Freitzke's Turn" and "The Dogtown Tourist Agency") (1980)
  * Lost Moons (1982)
  * The Narrow Land (1982)
  * The Augmented Agent and Other Stories (1986)
  * The Dark Side of the Moon (1986)
  * Chateau D'If and Other Stories (1990)
  * When the Five Moons Rise (1992)
  * Tales of the Dying Earth (1999)
  * The Jack Vance Treasury (2007), ISBN 1-59606-077-8
  * Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)
  * Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2010). Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596063013.
  * Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2012). Dream Castles : The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596064515.
  * Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2013). Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596065604.
  * Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2014). Minding The Stars: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Four. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596066458.
  * Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2015). Grand Crusades : The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596067103.
  
  ### Autobiography
  
  * This is Me, Jack Vance! (Subterranean Press, 2009) (won the 2010 Hugo Award, Best Related Book)
  