Book Review: The Jack Vance Lexicon The Coined Words of Jack Vance: From Abiloid to Zygage
Book Review: The Jack Vance Lexicon The Coined Words of Jack Vance : From Abiloid to Zygage-Dan Temianka and Jack Vance Vancealot: Jack Vance in Review, TJ Jones Spatterlight Press , trade paperback, 232 pages Release Date: 1992 Availability: May be purchased new from Amazon as of 2/24. Dan Temianka originally compiled this lexicon in 1992 but updated it in 2016. He added 160 more entries to the update and re-indexed the 1800 items from the first edition. Vance fans owe much to Temianka, those who assisted him and to Spatterlight Press. This book is not for the casual reader but is indispensable to dedicated Vance fans. Other readers might like this as a reference book while they read Vance's writings. I actually enjoyed reading it front to cover and then returned to it for further enjoyment. I rate it a 5 with the qualification that it will appeal mostly to those who love the writings of Jack Vance. Vance wrote three more novels after the ...