Manse of Iucounu, The-Jack Vance novelette, later as a chapter of a novel
Manse of Iucounu, The- Jack Vance novelette, later as a chapter of a novel AKA: Cugel the Clever , chapter VII The Eyes of the Overworld , chapter VII Tales of the Dying Earth , Book II, chapter VII The Manse of Iucounu was published in the July, 1966 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science as a 27 page novelette. It was later published as part of the novel The Eyes of the Overworld (aka Cugel the Clever) as a 12 page chapter VI called The Cave in the Forest and a 16/19 page chapter VII titled Manse of Iucounu. So the journal story was divided up into two book chapters with only the second chapter retaining the title Mans of Iucounu. I have a copy of the original magazine issue and it can be read by itself but makes much more sense when read as part of the novel because in the novel we learn about Cugel’s relationship with the Laughing Magician, why Cugel has been transported to where he is and the parasite Frix. In Manse of Iucounu Cugel meets a mag...