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Cugel's Saga-Jack Vance novel, book review

Cugel's Saga-Jack Vance novel AKA: Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight (author’s preferred title.) Tales of the Dying Earth, Book III Cugel’s Saga was first published as a novel in 1983 under the title Cugel’s Saga.   Two of its subchapters or stories were published previously.   The Seventeen Virgins was first published as a novelette in October, 1974 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.   It is the last story Vance published in a magazine.   The Bagful of Dreams was first published as a novelette in May, 1977 as part a hardcover anthology titled Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians.   Cugel’s Saga is a great fantasy novel.   It is one of Vance's finest and most creative works and is very highly recommended.   As of this writing the novel is available in a high quality, 301 page trade paperback edition by Spatterlight Press under the author’s preferred title “Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight.” Cugel’s Saga continues the ...