3 reviewed books
ReviewDana Gioia on Jack Vance's The Languages of PaoDana Gioia recalls a boyhood spent hunting science fiction on the drugstore racks, and returns as a critic to Jack Vance's own novel The Languages of Pao.→ReviewEmphyrioJack Vance may have been too much of a perfectionist for genre fiction, taking care in nuances lost to much of the pulp audience, yet limited by the divided literary culture of his day that scorned writers who set stories in outer space.→ReviewThe Dragon MastersYou have been terribly misled about science fiction. You've been told that it comes from the feverish pens of visionaries contemplating the wonders -- or horrors -- of the future....→