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  • "Lyonesse" also known as "Suldrun's Garden" is in print in the UK and a masterpiece!

    :Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2008

  • Is not this part of the "Lyonesse" of the poets -- the country of romance -- the land of the fairies?

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • Adam Roberts wants you to pick the best cover for Jack Vance's Lyonesse. [via Pyr-o-mania]

    SF Tidbits for 8/7/09 2009

  • To give another, Vance has been blind for the last twenty years (including when writing all his later books starting with Lyonesse), and while I shall bear in mind his extensive listing of mystery genre wriiters whose whork he enjoys listening to on audio, it would have been interesting to read something more profound about the effect of the loss of one of the five senses on the writer.

    June Books 4) Agatha Heterodyne and the Heirs of the Storm, by Kaja and Phil Foglio nwhyte 2010

  • 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

  • Celliwig, natch, is where I stole the capital of Lyonesse, Kelliwick.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • Anyway, Lyonesse is your creation and you can make up its linguistic rules all you like :

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • It doesn't necessarily imply that the languages of Lyonesse bear any resemblance to modern English.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

  • Vance also received acclaim in the 1980s for the pure fantasy Lyonesse series, containing the novels Lyonesse, Lyonesse: the Green Pearl, and Lyonesse: Madouc, the last of which won Vance a World Fantasy Award as Best Novel.

    Archive 2010-01-01 adamosf 2010

  • I haven't yet read the two Powers books, the two Lyonesse books, and The Well of the Unicorn.

    Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks: What I've Read Neth 2010

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