Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight-Jack Vance novel, book review
Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight-Jack Vance novel (author’s preferred title) AKA: Cugel’s Saga Tales of the Dying Earth, Book III Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight 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: the Skybreak Spatterlight is a great 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....