Vancealot: Jack Vance in Review

Jack Vance Novels (56) And Novellas (18) Works in bold are the preferred titles when work has multiple titles Total: 56 novels Total: 18 novellas 11 novellas NIA-never issued as stand-alone works 5 novellas IBI-issued by itself Total novels plus novellas=74 1 stand-alone novelette-Sjambak 1 stand-alone short story-Moon Moth 1 autobiography-This Is Me, Jack Vance!   Standard set forth by the Science Fiction Writers of America: Flash Fiction: 53 - 1,000 words Short Stories: 3,500 - 7,500 [usually under 22 pages] Novelettes: 7,500 - 17,000 [usually around 22-53 pages] Novellas: 17,000 - 40,000 [usually around 53-121 pages] Novels: 40,000 + words [usually around 121 pages or more]   Novels and Novellas Abercrombie Station (1952 TWS) 62 pgs, novella, later issued in collection Monsters in  Orbit, NIA. "Alastor Cluster" Series (see individual listings): 1.      Trullion: Alastor 2262 2.      Ma...

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. Abercroombie 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 Ga...