Jack Vance
Robert Silverberg’s Reflections: June 2016
‘Where Silverberg goes today, the rest of science fiction will follow tomorrow’ Isaac Asimov Reflections is a regular column by multi-award-winning SFWA Grandmaster Robert Silverberg, in which he will offer his thoughts […]
Read MoreGood Show Sir! Servants of the W…
We’ve mentioned before our deep and abiding affection for Good Show Sir, the site dedicated to reminding us of SF’s glorious (and, ocassionally, not so glorious) past when it comes to book covers. For reasons […]
Read MoreOn This Day: Jack Vance
On this day, ninety-nine years ago, John Holbrook ‘Jack’ Vance was born in San Francisco, California. Winner of three Hugos, a Nebula and a World Fantasy Award, he was given the World Fantasy Award for […]
Read MoreMasterworks Spotlight: Night Lamp
Grand Master Jack Vance’s haunting tale of the search for identity across time and space. SF Masterworks paperback | Gateway eBook Against the backdrop of the Gaean Reach, the widely populated region of space where […]
Read MoreSF Gateway & Gollancz: the World Fantasy Award Winners
So far this year, we’ve looked at how Gollancz and SF Gateway have fared in the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke, BSFA, John W. Campbell Memorial and British Fantasy Awards. Now, as we move towards the […]
Read MoreSFX Book Club: The Shadow of the Torturer
And so, by the time you read this, another Worldcon will be more or less over; another army of fans, authors, artists, editors and agents dispersed to return to everyday life. It is, for me at […]
Read MoreHappy New Year! Have Four More SF Gateway Omnibuses!
We imagine that some of you are greeting the New Year a little more delicately than others. DOES YOUR HEAD HURT? Well, for those of you still capable of coherent thought (and we’re not judging […]
Read MoreJACK VANCE: an Appreciation by Robert Silverberg
Jack Vance began to make his mark in science fiction in 1950 and 1951, when I was a highly impressionable teenager gobbling up every issue of every s-f magazine as fast as I could find […]
Read MoreSF Gateway Omnibus Schedule 2013
Following a deluge of requests** we have decided to publish the schedule of SF Gateway omnibuses up to the end of the year. So, without further ado . . . Available Now Frank Herbert – […]
Read MoreSF Masterwork of the Week: Emphyrio
The recently-departed Jack Vance is our current Author of the Month, so we thought it appropriate to select one of his titles as Masterwork of the Week. And, as we are wont to do when […]
Read MoreSF Gateway Author of the Month: Jack Vance
August’s Author of the Month is the recently departed Jack Vance. Winner of three Hugos, a Nebula and a World Fantasy Award, he was given the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1984, named […]
Read MoreJack Vance (1916 – 2013)
SF Gateway was saddened to learn of the recent death of Jack Vance. A published writer since 1945, he was responsible for some of modern SF’s most enduring tropes, from the ‘Big Planet’ space opera […]
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