Seventeen Virgins, The-Jack Vance novelette, later as a chapter in a novel
Seventeen Virgins, The- Jack Vance novelette, later as a chapter in a novel AKA: Cugel’s Saga or Cugel: the Skybreak Spatterlight, Chapter V, subchapter 1 The Seventeen Virgins was first published as a 23 page novelette in October, 1974 in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. This story won the Jupiter Award for best novelette in 1975 and placed tenth for the 1975 Locus award for best novelette. The Seventeen Virgins is reported to be the last story Vance ever published in a magazine. It has been reprinted in a few science fiction mixed author collections over the years. There is a rare 1979 limited edition (600 issues), softcover issue by Underwood-Miller that has The Seventeen Virgins the title and is the only piece in the book. The same year Underwood-Miller released another limited softcover edition with The Seventeen Virgins along with the story A Bagful of Dreams. A number of each of these issues were autographed by the author. Mo...