Jack Vance

The Elder Isles, located in what is now the Bay of Biscay off the the coast of Old Gaul, are made up of ten contending kingdoms, all vying with each other for control....

Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited....

Alors qu'il effectuait une mission de reconnaissance autour de la planète Tschaï, le vaisseau Explorateur IV a été abattu par un missile...

The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty - lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells....

Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter - and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge....

Le beau pays de Lyonesse ne suffit pas au roi Casmir : il veut régner sur toutes les Isles Anciennes, ce qui l'oblige à vaincre son rival Audry, roi de Dahaut. Une histoire fourmillant de malice et merveilles, hantée par la superbe et mélancolique figure de Suldrun, princesse à la beauté mélancolique, désirée par tous.

Someone is stealing the children of the galaxy’s elite, and Kirth Gersen suspects that the kidnapper is Kokor Hekkus—second of the Demon Princes. Deciphering a complex pattern of clues and coincidences, Gersen tracks his quarry to a barbaric world....

Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter—and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge. Now Gersen roams the galaxy, bringing vengeance to the Demon Princes....

The Eyes of the Overworld is the first of Vance’s picaresque novels about the scoundrel Cugel.....

In the interlocking Tales of the Dying Earth Vance explores the world at the end of time when sun is guttering.....

The fourth Demon Prince, Lens Larque, combines murderous criminality with a taste for horrific practical jokes. Escaping Gersen once, Larque flees to his home world of Dar Sai, known for its strange mating rituals and the violent winner-take-all game of hadaul....

Five intergalactic criminal masterminds raid the tranquil world of Mount Pleasant, leaving behind only ruin and slaughter—and the orphaned child Kirth Gersen, who comes to manhood swearing to take bloody revenge....

Il régnait alors, sur les terres des Isles Anciennes, chaos et infortune. Aillas de Troicinet, désormais roi de l'Ulfland du Sud, devait guerroyer...

In The Green Pearl, King Aillas of Troicinet defends the peace of the Elder Isles against both the Ska marauders who once enslaved him and the wicked King Casmir....

The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. ....

Les Isles Anciennes : une contrée magique et dangereuse, où sagesse et vertu devaient sans cesse en découdre face à la sorcellerie malfaisante des...

Gavin Waylock had waited seven years for the scandal surrounding his former immortal self to be forgotten....

When someone sent distress signals to outer space from the planet Tschai, it was Adam Reith's misfortune to be sent from Earth to investigate....

The Pnume were an ancient race of the planet Tschai, living underground in a vast network of caverns with their human slave species, the Pnumekin....

Getting back to Earth from the planet Tschai involved either stealing a spaceship or having one built to order....