Emphyrio

I'm a big Dying Earth fan, and liked Lyonesse and loved Emphyrio, but that still leaves Durdane, Demon Princes and of course Planet of Adventure.

British Fantasy Awards grrm 2010

Emphyrio by Jack Vance taught me to value truth above all things.

MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009

The distant omniscience of the prose and the dreamily impractical Fabian milieu both have a strong Vancean colour, and the startling puppet show Cinderella will strongly recall Holkerwoyd's puppet theatre in Emphyrio.

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010

The distant omniscience of the prose and the dreamily impractical Fabian milieu both have a strong Vancean colour, and the startling puppet show Cinderella will strongly recall Holkerwoyd's puppet theatre in Emphyrio.

Archive 2010-04-01 Tim Stretton 2010

Somewhere in there, I also fit in Jack Vance's Emphyrio, an engaging example of a certain sort of classic ethnographic science fiction, something halfway between Lloyd Biggle and Ursula Le Guin.

Miscellanea 2009

Emphyrio might be a good start for someone uninitiated to Vance.

Reader Challenge #6 - The Harry Potter Outreach Program Final Update 2007

And Emphyrio, Araminta Station, the Demon Princes (series), Durdane (series), Planet of Adventure (series), and lots of others in the Sci Fi category.

Reader Challenge #6 - The Harry Potter Outreach Program Final Update 2007

Somewhere in there, I also fit in Jack Vance's Emphyrio, an engaging example of a certain sort of classic ethnographic science fiction, something halfway between Lloyd Biggle and Ursula Le Guin.

Archive 2009-06-01 2009

How could I justify not picking up Pride and Prejudice or Emphyrio once more?

Archive 2008-02-01 Tim Stretton 2008

How could I justify not picking up Pride and Prejudice or Emphyrio once more?

:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008