Cugel the Clever-Jack Vance novel, book review
Cugel the Clever-Jack Vance novel (author’s preferred title) AKA: The Eyes of the Overworld Tales of the Dying Earth, Book II The Cugel the Clever is the second Vance novel series Tales of the Dying Earth. Although it reads like a novel, it is actually a “fix up novel” or a collection of five short works previously published in magazines plus one original work written for the novel. The original work is Cil. Another work, The Manse of Iucounu, was broken into two chapters in The Eyes of the Overworld and became The Cave in the Forest and The Manse of Iucounu. When it was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction the two stories were combined as one and simply titled The Manse of Iucounu. In its first publication it would have been novelette length. The first novel titled The Eyes of the Overworld was published in paperback by Ace Books in 1966. In 2005 it was released in the Vance Integral Edition under the...