It is with tears in my eyes that I've just learnt that Jack Vance is gone. With him it's a part of my youth that is gone, the better part that saw me walking the Dying Earth alongside Cugel, running after the Demon Princes through the Oikumene, or trying to escape the evil plans of Casmir and Tamurello... Thank you for everything, Jack, and now I'm waiting for my kids to be old enough to enter your worlds too...

I've been reading, and reading and reading again and again Jack Vance since I'm 18 until now I'm more than 50... And, even with all that time spendt, the magic, still is there as at the begining...I learndt so much reading Vance. I am deeply saddened by knowing the loss of this major writter. Thank you so much M. Vance. SLagorce (France)

I was 16 years old when a friend gave me tshai i will never forget that day thanks jack

I learned of Jack's books back when I was a young teenager and the local library was my hall of wonders in which I'd spend too many afternoons. Jack opened my eyes to a universe so tangible, so detailed and believable that I could imagine it would all become a reality one day. I wish you'd been able to live to see that colourful future, so that you could tell the world:"See, exactly as I thought..." I'll raise a cold one in your memory, master Vance.

Hi, I'm terribly sad to hear about the Death of Jack Vance. He was truly my best loved author of Fantasy and Science Fiction. No one ever got near to those richly baroque descriptions of remote civilizations. I started being a fan as a boy but never stopped as an adult (as with so many others). Instead everytime I re-read his books I would find something new to discover. I will miss him. Thanks for all! Werner

I have only just found out about Jack's passing, and am deeply saddened at the loss of this unique and remarkable voice. On the bookshelf above my bed are a fifteen or so books, my favourites, books that I read and read again, and almost all of them are Jack's. If there exists any form of existence after this life, it is my fervent hope that, "...with foam at the bow and a gurgle to the wake...", Jack is surging forward into it...

I have all the books and stories written by Vance. They kept me company during these years and allowed to travel with the imagination in the universe, knowing different worlds and cultures. Thank you very much for everything Jack. Alessandro Florence Italy

Gracias Jack por tantos buenos ratos leyendo y releyendo tus libros. Te has ido, pero seguiremos disfrutando.

I passed my admiration and the love for the masterpieces of Jack Vance through to my son. I am convinced he will do the same and will addict his future children to these magnificent books: a gift of a father beyond any price. Thank you Jack.

I was teen-ager at tschai time, every year I re-read all the tschai planet of adventure quadrilogy. Thankyou Jack

I just learned that that you died Jack. You helped me to discover Science Fiction, through your magical and wonderful books. I will never be able to thank you enough. Merci encore, tu m'auras fait tant rêver. Chapeau à l'artiste.

curieusement, le roman qui m'a fait découvrir Jack Vance est un roman policier : Méchant garçon, c'est ce livre qui m'a donné envie de lire le reste, Lyonesse, la geste, Durdane,la terre mourante, et tous ces romans merveilleux, les langages de pao, la vie éternelle, un monde d'azur, j'en ai encore à découvrir quelques uns, j'en salive d'avance ! merci mr Vance de m'avoir emmené dans vos mondes magnifiques de l'aire gaïane et au delà, dans les galaxies inconnues, je ne doute pas que vous allez continuer à enchanter quelque belle aventurière rencontrée sur une planète verte et bleue avec une de vos histoires magiques

I MISS YOU VERY MUCH JACK.

Sus obras me han hecho disfrutar como ninguana otra. Mi idolo es Kirth Gersen, el protagonista de los Principes Demonio, pero no me olvido tampoco de Cugel en la Saga de la Tierra moribunda. Releo muy amenudo sus obras,..ahora mismo como no releo por enesima vez "Los principes Demonio" y sigo disfrutando. Para mi el mejor escritor de Ciencia Ficción y Fantasia que ha existido jamas. Descanse en Paz Jack Vance. Muchas gracias. Thank you very much.

I had a dream. I hoped Jack Vance would live forever, giving us the ways to discover foreign spaces, to live adventures in space, live like a true hero. Even if Jack met our Creator, he will still live among us as one of the greatest writers of all times. Good trip Jack !

I am very sad to learn that J.Vance passed away a few months ago.He was my favourite author and was able to provide me with lots of precious and fabolous hours of reading.May God bless his soul! Since I am an Orthodox Christian I will light a candle for him next time I am in church.I will also dedicate my next bottle of German dark beer to him.May your sould rest in peace,Jack Vance.You have enrichted my life.Thank you!

Farewell Jack. You will be sorely missed. I will treasure your works the more now. May your new world be as colorful as those you made me dream for more than 35 years.

J'avais re-découvert la littérature de s-f il y a 25 ans grâce à toi, le pied total, le bonheur quoi! Les chroniques de Cadwal, le cycle du Tchaï, etc, Merci Jack et bonne route de l'autre côté!

merci pour tous vos livres qui nous ont tant fait rêver, mon père et moi.

So long Jack. Thanks for the memories. More than memories, the very stuff that dreams are made of.

For more than 40 years Jack has been part of my life. That is: my bookshelf is stacked with all (well, almost all) his books both in the original language and in the Dutch language. Reading Jack's books not only gave me pleasure in reading them, but actually improved my own English and Dutch speaking and writing by his use of words and sentences. Once or twice per year I check about Jack on the internet. Only to find out that he passed away several months ago. What a loss. Jack, thank you so much for leaving us so many exciting and beautiful books and short stories.

For forty years or more the books and characters of Jack Vance have been my companions and have never lost their ability to open a door to worlds that are as real in my imagination as my own personal ones. It has been a gift beyond price.

à sept ans je lisais Jules vernes, à 10 je lisais Strange, à 15 je lisais tout ce qui me passait dans les mains et puis vers 17 ans j'ai lu Cugel l'astucieux et je n'ai plus laché ni la SF ni Jack Vance ... J' ai 49 ans il me reste la moitié d'une vie d'un jack Vance . Je vais essayé de les passer avec humour et détachement comme toi Jack . A dans trés longtemps , à demain ...

Over 30 years ago I discovered in a local (Dutch) library a book that took me to the Oikumene and Beyond and I was hooked. Over the years I built up quite a collection of Jack Vance's work, eagerly waiting for his latest book or one I'd not yet read. Or simply re-reading the books I had for the sheer joy they gave me. That collection I left behind when I moved to the UK 5 years ago where I discovered I could start collecting again. Thank you for sharing the past and the future, worlds far away and near and the hours of pleasure I (and many thousands of others) get when we pick up a book written by Jack Vance.

I discovered the works of Jack Vance in a tattered grocery bag of paperbacks and digest SF magazines brought to our house by a friend of my parents.it ..was June of 1971, school was out for the year, I was 14, and in my hands i held the Ace paperback of "The Dirdir" and the first installment of the F&SF serialization of "The Faceless Man". (I didn't find the second installment till 6 months later, from a used bookstore i found in an ad in the back pages of F&SF.) My life changed that day...and even though i never met Jack Vance, his sensibility definitely affected my own artistic efforts....and I've read at least a few pages of his work every day. I now own the 6th leather bound copy of the 2nd edition of the Vance Integral Edition....and I read from it regularly, start to finish. Thank you Mr. Vance for opening my eyes to a very new way of looking at the world.... the flavors of alien food, the styles of alien dress, the exquisite manners of alien culture, and the wonderful colors of alien sunrises and sunsets.

My dad would read me Jack Vance novels when I was younger, giving me a love of sci fi that lasts even today. I have since read many sci fi novels by Vance's contemporaries, and by more modern authors, but Jack Vance's writing remains my absolute favorite. My dad and I don't have much in common, but his work has always been a place where we can meet. Thank you Jack Vance, your writing will always remain in my heart!

By far my favorite writer. My life has been greatly enhanced by his elequent words, and the unique characters that sprung from his fertile imagination. I wish I had had the chance to thank h in person. I'm sure he was a wonderful man.

Only just read about his passing. Very sad news. He will live forever in his great novels though. R.I.P. and thanks Jack. You were one of the best!

Jack's stories took me to the stars and to worlds of difference. Thank you.

The last of the giants of science fiction and fantasy is gone! Will we ever see his like again?In imagination Jack Vance had few peers in his field, and no others coupled that imagination with both such brilliant, polished prose and subtle wit. Fortunately his masterpieces - the Dying Earth series, The Last Castle, Dragonmasters and so many other wonderful stories - live on, and we can still relish the escapades of that immortal rogue, Cugel the Clever. Farewell, Jack, and thank you for many years of reading pleasure!

I have enjoyed your books so very much Jack. Thanks for writing all those great stories which allowed me to see things differently, allowed me to step out of the real life for some time and live in your stories....thanks to all who have been inspiring this great writer. greetings from the Netherlands....steven

my favorite author. i will be waiting forever for another novel.

Here's my personal mystery concerning Jack Vance. I've never entirely understood the influence his stories have on me. When I read them, I feel stunned by the wonder of how every element is made manifest. His plot lines seem to soar around the narratives of real life; mocking our foolishness one minute, then honoring our courage the next. His descriptions of alien places and beings--and the unpredictable results of human presence in those settings--paint vivid images in my mind. That's why I've never been very impressed with the covers created for his books, even the ones his fans hail as worthy of Jack's writing. Not one comes close to what Jack's prose triggers in my mind's eye. (Unfortunately I can't draw or paint.) No, I'm not another science fiction fanatic. I enjoy the best authors: Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Leguin, etc. I also enjoy mainstream writers: William Faulkner, E.L. Doctorow, Haruki Murakami, John Updike, etc. But Jack seems to me to be almost a genre unto himself, with a few consistent general features in his style that result in the "sci-fi" rubber stamp being placed on his books. Heck, reading isn't even my greatest passion; music is. But the effects of the finest music I've heard usually fades in a couple of hours. A Jack Vance story stays with me for months; sometime years. Its features haunt me. Each story is almost like a person who comes to my house and then just stands there waiting for me to answer questions. Puzzling questions, like: "Why I am I so important to you?" "Why have I changed the way you look at life?" "How could one man's fiction have this effect on you?" Some folks talk about spirit guides who help a person through crucial passages in life. If Jack Vance's creative voice is my spirit guide, it's done little to help me understand where I'm supposed to be going. But, maybe I don't need to "explain" the mystery. Maybe explaining every mystery is an obsession for scientists; a cultural trait peculiar to Western culture. Maybe unexplained mysteries keep us humble, curious, amazed, dazzled and engaged in the now. Sorry, Jack. Sorry that I couldn't write a more fitting tribute for a good man who has done so much for me. And without ever getting to know me. Our intersection was thousands of quirky ink patterns printed on cheap paper; alphabet patterns I was only able to translate after years of schooling. Somehow, Jack Vance found a way to transmit his benevolent sorcery through those little shapes.

At age 12 i was taken on Tschai. Then i saw others worlds. THANK YOU. Eugenio Florence Italy

I was honored to be a proofreader for the VIE. Jack Vance has been my favorite author for 45 years since I discovered The Eyes of the Overworld. A supreme storyteller, inventor, observer, explorer with a unique and witty style. Thank you.

Alas , as a french reader I do not have the English words who would allow me to say all the love that I carry to Jack Vance.It was a poet, a humorist and a fabulous storyteller whose characters succeed more by the intelligence than the pure force.I thank Jack Vance for all these hours of happiness that it gave me. Cugel, Kirth Gersen and so much of other... It will not be forgotten.

City of the Chasch (library, age 12) was my first encounter. Now my collection is almost complete. The liveliness, wit, clearness of Jack's stories works magic on me. What I read is extremely visible. Great persons. My THANK YOU now goes to his family.

I must have been 11 when I found a curious little book called "the Pnume" in my father's library. I read it - in Dutch- and was utterly bewildered by the strangeness, the boundless imagination, the wry wit, the richness and flavour of even the simplest conversations. I didn't read the entire Tschai omnibus until years later at university…but I and my circle of friends became avid Jack Vance fans. We must have sought out and read every novel or short story we could get our hands on. I just recently introduced a young friend to The Demon Princes and she too is now drawn into this wonderful myriad of universes. Somehow, Mr Vance, I thought you would survive us all. Thank you for the stories; I will enjoy them, time and time again, to my dying day. My warm sympathies to your family and friends.

The greatest living painter of environments from words. I've ready almost everything he's written multiple times. And will continue reading multiple time, until the Pnume await me across the steppes of Tschai.

Dear Jack, Thank you for inspiring me so greatly with your work. One day, we will again form parts of the stars we love so dearly.

Jack Vance MADE me read, after reading on of my first 'voluntary' reads, Tschai, it was difficult to top th

I need to get some really good wine then. To Jack Vance!

A great loss. I'm a fan and reader since decades. I collected everything possible of is work translated in dutch, and I think (and hope) I have completed the task. I shall nourish his work. I will ever remember him. Thomas

The first book i read by Jack Vance, was 'The Eyes of the Overworld' which introduced me to a certain Cugel, who turned out to be a character i would never forget. The book was a fantastic read and amused me so much i had to read it again the next day. Being on holiday in Greece at the time, i could not wait to get back to the Uk to begin my search for other books by Jack Vance. I was totally hooked and grew to love Jack's writing style. The characters, wit, sheer farce, poignancy, imagination and adventure throughout his writing hit a deep chord within me and i could not get enough of it. Since then, i have read and reread Jack's books until some have fallen apart but lucky for me . i always bought Jack's books in pairs when i could, to allow for that distinct possibility. Jack Vance's worlds and characters will remain with me forever and with a tear in my eye, i salute, applaud and celebrate one of the best writers on planet Earth.

Your books have amazed and delighted me for over thirty years. So many memories... summers sitting in the yard reading your work... You are missed and remembered fondly.

I read Vance's books since I was 14 (both in english or in their french translations), still read them (again) sometimes and find them as wondering as ever. My favourite is certainly Emphyrio but I do love each of them. Thanks, Gilles

Jack Vance´s books made my life happier and meaningful. He was like a father to me, though i never met him and i´ll never will. So sad I´m weeping. Thank you, Jack. I´ll always remember you.

Merci pour tout

Wat een geweldig schrijver is ons ontvallen! Zijn boeken las ik vaak in een adem uit, behalve de dikke pillen natuurlijk. Hij is én blijft mijn favoriete SF schrijver. Jack, je blijft bij me middels je boeken. Bedankt, Léon

Over nearly 50 years of reading Jack Vance - sparked by buying a cheap Ace paperback version of Eyes of the Overworld in Woolworths - and what a delight! Plots didn't really matter, the language was so gorgeous and baroque. A master wordsmith.

I found your books both stimulating, imaginative, original and warm hearted, I am truly distressed at your passing

The best authors make me think, laugh, cry. Few have made me want to read every word they have ever written. Still fewer have written over forty books. Only one has done them all. Thank you for Emphyrio, The Dying Earth, Sheriff Joe Bain, the Demon Princes, and the rest. Words can’t express my gratitude for your work and my sense of loss for your passing.

Gracias por mostrarnos Alastor. Siempre te recordaremos.

J'ai lu mon premier vance il y a 20 ans et j'en subis encore l'extase ! J'ai vécu à la même époque que Jack Vance !

Jack and his wonderful novels and stories were an inspiration to me. My love of reading burned all the brighter for encountering his work. Rest in peace, Sir.

His stories opened the gates to the world of phantastic literature to me and they gave me evenings and nights of journeys through worlds, which were filled with so strange characters and societies noone else could create. His Stories are part of my life and will ever be part of it. So I have to thank you Mr. Vance for the life you created for me and the phantastic worlds you have shown to me. Thank you a lot and have a good journey. Philipp Scheer (from Kiel, Germany)

An incredible creative mind. Such a pleasure to read Mr. Vance's books - I have read them again and again and will to continue to do so through my life. Not something I would do with many books, but Jack's books are something special. Sad to hear he has passed away.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your beautyfull books,worlds,words. Thank you for sharing that with the world. And rest in peace. From the Netherlands, Halis Aydin

I loved his stories and always will. Very sad to hear of his passing.

No other writer, no matter how good, has given me half the pleasure that Jack Vance has - with his countless fantastic worlds, his unforgettable characters, and his peerless prose. I am indebted forever.