Jack Vance Novellas (18)

Jack Vance Novellas (18) 5 issued as stand-alone books

IBI=issued by itself as a book. All are novellas are reviewed individually in this blog.

Abercrombie Station (1952 TWS) 62 pgs., novella, later issued as chapter1 in the collection Monsters in Orbit, BJV, GE, HLD, MHE.

Brains of the Earth, The see Nopalgarth.

           Assault on a City-see Insufferable Redheaded Daughter of Commander Tynnott O.T.E.

Chateau d’If ((1950 TWS) 61 pgs., novella, AKA: New Bodies for Old, CD, NL, WT.

Cholwell's Chickens (1952 TWS) 50 pgs., novella later issued as chapter 2 of the collection Monsters in Orbit, DC, GG, MHE.

Crusade to Maxus (1951, TWS) 49/71 pgs., novella, AKA: "Overlords of Maxus," AA, GC, CD.

Dragon Masters, The (1963) 116 pgs., novella, IBI, DMO, JVT.

Freitzke’s Turn (1977) 77 pgs., novella, part 2 of collections “Galactic Effectuator” and “Miro Hetzel, Effectuator” DC, GE, MHE.

Gift of Gab (1955) 56 pgs., novella, CD, DFS, FT, JVT.

Guyal of Sfere (1950, The Dying Earth) 41 pgs., Novella length according to ISFDB.  Originally published as chapter 6 of the novel The Dying Earth (1950 that is sometimes printed as an excerpt so is not counted as a novella since it is an excerpt from a novel. EFM, FM, FT, JVT.

Houses of Iszm (1954) 120 pgs., novella, IBI, BJV, GC, STHI.

Insufferable Redheaded Daughter of Commander Tynnott O.T.E-(1974 Universe 4) 40/49 pgs., 17,400 word novella, AKA: "Assault on a City" GG, LM, WT.

Kragen, The (1964 FS) 107 pgs., novella eventually expanded to novel Blue World, WTV.

Last Castle, The (1966) 113 pgs., novella, IBI, BJV, DMO, JVT.

Man from Zodiac, The (1967 AmS) 40/49 pgs., novella, AKA: "Milton Hack from Zodiac," AA, CD, MS.

Miracle Workers, The-77 pgs., novella, DMO, FM, GM, JVT.

            New Bodies for Old-see Chateau d’If.

Nopalgarth (1966) 103 pgs., novella, AKA: “Brains of the Earth,” IBI, CD, MS, WJV.

            Overlords of Maxus see Crusade to Maxus.

Parapsyche (1958 ASF) 115 pgs., novella, DSM, GS, MS, S2.

Rumfuddle (1973 in Three Trips in Time and Space) 57 pgs., novella, BJV, MM, WT.

Son of the Tree (1951) 110 pgs., novella, IBI, DC, STHI.

Telek (1952 Astounding SF) 58 pgs., novella, EFM, MS, WFM, WTO.


Jack Vance Collections:

pb=paperback, hc=hardcover

Augmented Agent, The (1989, Underwood-Miller): AA (pb, hc)

Best of Jack Vance, The (1976, Pocket): BJV (pb, hc)

Chateau D'If And Other Stories (2017, Spatterlight): CD (pb)

Complete Magnus Ridolph, The (1984, Underwood-Miller) all 10 stories: CMR (hc)

Dangerous Ways: Selected Mysteries, Volume one (2011, Subterranean) DW (hc))

Dark Side of the Moon, The (1986, NEL): DSM (pb, hc)

Desperate Days: Selected Mysteries, Volume 2 (2012, Subterranean): DD (hc)

Dragon Masters, The and Other Stories (2016, Spatterlight): DMO (pb)

Dream Castles: Early Jack Vance, vol. 2 (2012, Subterranean): DC (hc)

Dust of Far Suns (1981, DAW):same collection as Future Tense DFS (pb)

Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969, MacMillan): EFM (pb, hc)

Fantasms and Magics (1978, Granada) FM (pb)

Future Tense, collection (1964, Ballantine) same collection as Dust of Far Suns: FT (pb)

Gadget Stories (2005, part of VIE) same as Potters of Firsk and Other Stories: GS (hc)

Golden Girl and Other Stories (2012, Spatterlight): GG (hc)

Grand Crusades: Early Jack Vance vol. 5 (2012, Subterranean): GC (hc)

Green Magic: The Fantasy Realms of Jack Vance (1979, TOR): GM (pb, hc)

Hard-Luck Diggings:The Early Works of Jack Vance,vol. 1 (2010 Subterranean):HL (hc)

Jack Vance Treasury (2007, Subterranean): JVT (hc)

Light from a Lone Star (1985, Nesfa): LLS (hc)

Lost Moons (1982, Underwood-Miller): LM (hc)

Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Vol. 3 (2015, Subterranean): MH (hc)

Magnus Ridolph (2017, Spatterlight) MRS (pb)

Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, The (1966, Ace) 6 of 10 stories: MWA (pb)

Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph, The (1980, DAW) 8/10 stories: MWD (pb)

Minding the Stars: Early Jack Vance, vol. 4 (2014, Subterranean): MS (hc)

Miro Hetzel, Effectuator (2018, Spatterlight): MHE (pb)

Monsters In Orbit (1964, Ace Double): MIO (pb)

Moon Moth and Other Stories (1976, Dobson) British: MMB (hc)

Moon Moth and Other Stories (2012, Spatterlight): MM (pb)

Narrow Land, The (1984, DAW): NL (pb)

Sail 25 and Other Stories (2012, Spatterlight): S2 (pb)

Son of the Tree & The Houses of Iszm (2017, Spatterlight, STHI (pb)

Tales of the Dying Earth (2000, ORB): TDE (pb)

When the Five Moons Rise (1992, Underwood-Miller): WFM (hc)

Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009, Subterranean): WT (hc) 

Wild Thyme and Violets, Other Unpublished Works (2012, Spatterlight): WTV (pb)

World Between and Other Stories, The (1965, Ace double): WB (pb)

World-Thinker and Other Stories (2017, Spatterlight): WTO (pb)

Worlds of Jack Vance, The (1973, Ace): WJV (pb)

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