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This Is Me, Jack Vance!: (Or, More Properly, This Is "I") Taschenbuch – 16. September 2016

Englisch Ausgabe von Jack Vance (Autor), Richard A. Lupoff (Vorwort)
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POD 62 This Is Me

His 90th birthday behind him, Jack Vance – once the most private of writers – tells the story of his rich and eventful life, full of travels, personalities, work and family. This Hugo-winning autobiography contains photographs from the Vance archive spanning nearly a century. This is Jack Vance! – Steve Sherman

This Is Me, Jack Vance! is Volume 62 of the Spatterlight Press Signature Series.

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    15.24 x 1.3 x 22.86 cm
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  • Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Spatterlight Press (16. September 2016)
  • Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
  • Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 202 Seiten
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1619471213
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1619471214
  • Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.3 x 22.86 cm
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Dalek
5,0 von 5 Sternen Illuminante
Rezension aus Italien vom 23. Oktober 2017
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Autobiografia del grande Jack che fa luce su una personalità di primo piano della letteratura fantascientifica: molti aneddoti, alcuni dei quali legati alla genesi di racconti e romanzi famosi
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Ken Korczak
5,0 von 5 Sternen The remarkable biography of a remarkable writer
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Over the past 30 years I have read just about everything Jack Vance has written - many dozens of books - and, yes, I have re-read most of them multiple times. I know there are five or six of his titles I have read 15 or 20 times each - I'm not kidding - and each read and re-read is always pure unadulterated joy.

Vance is a writer of strange power; he is a unique phenomenon in literature. There was never another writer like him before, and there will never be another like him again. The science fiction writer Robert Silverberg said other writers have occasionally tried to imitate Vance "only to embarrass themselves or find it impossible."

And yet, while it can't be said that Vance is an obscure writer, in his long career he never approached the fame and recognition of his fellow genre artists, such as Bradbury, Clarke, Heinlein and Asimov. He won every major award in science fiction, including the Hugo and Nebula multiple times - as he also did in another genre, detective novels and murder mysteries. But true fame eluded him - and that was probably okay with him.

Writer Michael Chabon said of Vance:

"Jack Vance is the most painful case of all the writers I love who I feel don't get the credit they deserve. If The Last Castle or The Dragon Masters had the name Italo Calvino on it, or just a foreign name, it would be received as a profound meditation, but because he's Jack Vance and published in Amazing Whatever, there's this insurmountable barrier."

Of Vance's place in American literary tradition, Chabon said:

"It's not Twain-Hemingway; it's more Poe's tradition, a blend of European refinement with brawling, two-fisted frontier spirit."

The immensely popular Neil Gaiman read his first Vance tale at age 13. He said:

"I fell in love with the prose style. It was elegant, intelligent; each word felt like it knew what it was doing. It's funny but never, ever once nudges you in the ribs."

Gaiman credits Vance with his own desire to become a writer.

One of the reasons Vance never became as revered as a Mark Twain or as popular as a Ray Bradbury is that his style can be (or seem) challenging. Over the years, I've heard dozens of my friends say, "I really tried to get into Vance, but I always found myself dropping out of his books after two or three chapters." On the other hand, Vance certainly has legions of fans, and may be more popular in Europe than the United States.

Vance published this biography, THIS IS ME, JACK VANCE! at about age 95. As of this writing, he is 97. He has been blind for more than 20 years, and the loss of his eyesight eventually forced him to stop writing - even though he completed some of his best works after his eyes failed, including the marvelous Lyoness series and "Night Lamp," the latter of which is a near masterpiece.

Because of his blindness, Vance was obligated to write his biography by dictation, a process with which was not familiar or comfortable, and he says so at the beginning.

What interesting is that this is a biography of a great writer which contains almost nothing about writing at all. He provides about three pages of commentary about writing near the end of the book, and then he only did so at the insistence of his agent and editors.

The majority of the book is devoted to his passions for life: traveling around the world on a shoestring budget; restaurants serving great food wines, liquors and whiskeys; the world's oceans and sailing; carpentering his home in Oakland from the ground up. Last but not least, and his most ardent passion of all - jazz.

Vance says that his wife, Norma, was an indispensable part of everything he wrote. Their method was to cloister together in a room. Using a fountain pen and notepad, Jack would churn out 2,000 to 3,000 words per day. Norma would type and edit his drafts. Jack would then pore over the first typed version and make changes. Norma would then retype the manuscript - and they sent it off to publishers - all of whom were eager to print whatever they could get with the name "Jack Vance" on the by line.

Ah - but what rooms they worked in! A cabin in rural Ireland, a cottage in Tahiti, a balcony room by the sea in an Italian hotel, a houseboat parked on Nageen Lake in Kashmir, a campsite tent in Zimbabwe, an Oceanside apartment in Australia, a rented house in Mexico - the travels of Jack and Norma (and later with their young son, John), left me astounded!

So this is a biography quite unlike any other - iconoclastic, completely unconcerned with commercial appeal or popularity, unpretentious, humble, filled with terrific, entertaining anecdotes - the last remarkable work of one of the most remarkable writers of all time.
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Philip Gurlik
5,0 von 5 Sternen good read
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 6. Juli 2024
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Anything by Jack Vance is worth reading
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NickDaveyBordeaux
3,0 von 5 Sternen Average but interesting
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 15. Mai 2014
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Gives dome insight into Vance's background for those interested. Not a great work of art but of interest if you want to know more about him
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John Shoemaker
4,0 von 5 Sternen Much about Vance but wanted more
Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 31. Oktober 2012
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I have read nearly everything Jack Vance has written--most of them multiple times. I consider him one of America's greatest writers period, not just a great science fiction writer. Therefore, I wanted to give this book 5 stars. In truth, however, it was not up to Vance's usual standards.

That being said, I still enjoyed his reminesence of his days as a youth in Northern California, particularly since I lived there for a time and knew the places he described. I gained a new respect for Vance as a man who did many things besides write and I am envious of the many adventures he had. Imagine being friends with Frank Herbert and Poul Anderson and Arthur C. Clark. What a privilege that must have been.

My main disappointment is that there was too little about his motivation for writing, the origins of his unique style and the background for some of his novels. The last chapter was about three pages devoted to his writing and that left me unsatisfied.

Nevertheless, I'm glad Vance was able to write another book and I was happy to read it. As Vance says in the last chapter: "The mark of good writing, in my opinion, is that the reader is not aware that the story has been written;"
I will read his books many more times and be transported to fabulous worlds and listen to people speak in that unique style I have come to love and be utterly absorbed in the fabric of Jack Vance's creation.

If this is the first Jack Vance book intend to read, please don't be discouraged. His fiction is well worth the read.
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