Adiós a un autor que me hizo pasar grandes momentos de lectura. Me apasionaron sus series y su fantasía desbocada me hizo soñar en las novelas con las que tanto disfruté. Que la tierra te sea leve

Goodbye to the most colorful writer I have ever read. Neniam oni forgesos vin.

Read the Green Pearl and was hooked. The Lyonnesse trilogy is one of the few sets of books I reread on an almost annual basis. The shorter stories such as the Blue World are also revisited. I know Jack lived to a very good age but his stories will be missed.

Your words have shaped worlds. Thank you for changing mine too.

I have read the bad new just now... What say? For family, friends, fans, readers, Vance always be the grand master of sf and fantasy. May his great mind and imagination survive on our memories and fantasies. Master Vance, I hope the universe embrace you with tender, cause you´re a cosmic mind, much more above us, humans!

Jack, You are still the best writer on this or any other plane/plain. Your prose surpasses poetry. I will continue to read you forever. Goodbye Kirth. Goodbye Adam. Goodbye Cudgel. Good die Howard, Woudiver, and Issam the Thang. Your like will not be seen again.

I remember borrowing from our public library 'Tschai' when I was 11 years old. Ever since I've enjoyed the many books and stories Jack Vance has written. Reading Jack Vance is one of the most enjoyable things I can think of. Thank you, Jack, for sharing your mind with us.

Few authors have been, like Mr Vance, able to paint a whole alien setting in two pages, and make it stick in their reader's mind. A great writer of Adventure has passed.

Over the course of the last forty years I have read almost everything Jack has published. The range and unique flavor of his stories, each standing out in my mind as a separate unforgettable entity, have made him both my favorite author and the one I admire most for breadth and depth of his talent. Behind his work, there is the sense of the man himself who I believe was as unique and special as his stories. I wish I had known him personally. I believe being in his company and talking to him would have conjured up the same magic found in his books. Goodbye Jack, thank you for your genius, I will always treasure your work and honor you as a truly great author.

Nobody, but Jack Vance could create such imaginary worlds and give us a glance in the human mind. Thank you sir, for all these beautiful and exciting hours of reading you will live forever in our minds

Goodbye, and thank you.

my name is as immaterial as a Demon Princes'. I first read JV in high scool, second year. It was The Eyes of the Overworld. This book not only provided me hours of mre-reading pleasure, it literarly built my young vocabulary. This is a point not often mentioned by the most fervent of JV's readers. JV often spoke of his lacking a precise style, a medotd to his composition. Two points: 1- bring a dictionary! JV glorified the English language as much as a Durell. This places him amongst the finest of writers. 2-JV's "style" was his readers-they always knew what to expect and he never let them down. No, and I mean NO author could create a sense of otherworldliness than Vance.Simply mention the Narrow Land and the brain finds no comparison encept in JV's ouvre. I suspect this is the reason no one can bring him to screen. Only a Kubrick could try, and even he would fail. I dammed wish I could!Frankly, there will never be another,and his loss to us is as profound as the death of Sam Beckett. I do not exagerate.He should have won the prize for literature. Peace to his fundament!

No other author has given me so much enjoyment over the years, and my hope is that his work will continue to find new readers far into the future, perhaps the futures he once imagined might come to pass. Like Baron Bodissey, he too, will be quoted in another author's footnotes.

Farewell, dear sir, and many thanks for all the wonderful journeys. May you find your perfect lurulu...

I don't the gift to express myself the way Jack did with words. So I'll simply say thank you Jack. You'll be missed.

Farewell Jack Vance, as a teenager I have consumed your novels and it appeared to me that for that time I was an inhabitant of the Gaean Reach more than my home planet. Perhaps you did not tell me more about sociolology and philosophy than my later studies but for the first time I could feel the wide variety of human behaviour. This means much to me. Thank You

Jack Vance. May he rest in peace. Jack Vance. Er ruhe in Frieden.

Thanks to Jack Vance I'm now as SF fan

Jack est mort. Mon père, mon frère, mon ami, mon maître. Ma jeunesse est partie avec lui. Reste le bonheur de te lire et te relire. Pages après pages, la magie opère de nouveau. "I have been deserted by my enemies. Treesong is dead. The affair is over. I am done."

Hail and farewell, Jack Vance! I've loved your works with a passion ever since I read Star King in the 60s. There will never be another author like you. Ave atque vale.

Just yesterday, a friend of mine told me that Jack Vance had passed out. I was terribly upset to hear of Jack´s death and I send his family my sincere condolences. In 1995 I was 29 years old, and I felt that the days of enjoying a novel in the same way as when I was a teenager had definitively fade away. But then I read my first Vance’s novel, Demon Princess. I was absolutely stunned. Every thing what I believed lost were in those pages: interesting plots, marvellous adventures, fascinating characters, and an unsurpassed talent to describe strange but plausible atmospheres. Everything written through an effective and often elegant style that combines a touch of magic and crude reality, humour and seriousness, melancholy and joy… After the Demon Princess I have read the rest of Jack Vance novels and I think that most of them are splendid writings: the trilogy of Lyonesse is likely one of the fresher modern contribution to fairy tales. In my opinion, only a few of Science Fiction and Fantasy writers have achieved so high standards, and none of them in the so imaginative way as Jack Vance did it. How fortunate we are in having Jack Vance’s novels: they allow us to live, briefly, in other wonderful worlds, and in parallel they make our own world more wonderful. Thank you Mr. Vance. Enrique Murgui

Senti a partida dele como se fora a de um velho amigo...

Left us on friday. The day was frugal and full of promise. Songs of praise were sent via radio, tv and interweave. A great scribe gas befel us. Regret it not but rejoice in the gifts that were lain. Sir vance I salute you.

I only just learned of your passing. I don't know when I read my first Jack Vance book or which it was, but I do know that I read the first one over 20 years ago and have since read and re read many of your stories. You brought alive a universe, rich and detailed as well as characters as deep as Dicken has written with dialogue that Shakespeare would be proud of. I'm currently re reading the Demon Princes series, which is one of my favourite stories along with Araminta Station, Lyonesse, Showboat World, Big Planet, Tales of a Dying Earth......You've enriched my life and continue to do so. Best wishes to your family and hope that magnificent contribution you have made to literature makes your family proud!!

I read the sad news only recently (not living in the US). Saddening news and a great loss. I loved (love) his books. Goodbye, Mr. Vance, and with some luck, we'll meet again somewhere in the Alastor Cluster someday.

You gave us so Much and we are so glad to have discovered your stories and read hem over and over and over again. It smadend us to know that NOS never again such a stort Will see the light of day. We Will Miss Your writings..fare thee well. For us You Will live for ever through vogel, kirth gersen A'dam recht, glawen and all otters. Thank You so Munch for sharing your worlds with us.

Jack Vance was the greatest. There will never be another like him. I started reading his stuff when I was 9 and I am now 60 and still reread everything he wrote. Deepest sympathies to his family.

I can't even remember when I picked up my first book by you or which one it was. Your books became an obsession from the first page. I have crawled round so many second hand bookshops searching for your books. Only rarely did I arrive triumphantly to the counter. Reading your books made the whole world and every human behavior familiar. It was as if you had read every philosophy there is and showed in your books how useless they were. It was as if you had seen all the different people on earth and put them into your books. No habit and way of life was too strange for you to write about. I love the wide spaces and far away horizons in your books. Where other authors hold on tightly to every tiny idea they have, you just scatter them generously all over. So many times, when one follows one of your heroes, do they cast a fleeting glance in a direction and the scene they see is what other authors would miserly have used for at least a trilogy. There are a few of your books I still have not managed to get hold of and the ones I have can be re-read a million times. I hope your work will get the attention it deserves. The way you use the language is just amazing. You will be missed

I bought the first Lyonesse novel on a whim some 10 years ago (living as I do in the geographic vicinity of the Elder Isles). Since that first book I have searched and gathered any and all I can find of Jack Vances stories and novels. He was an absolute master of wit, vocabulary and imagination. I am greatly saddened at his passing - the world is certainly a poorer place without his literary richness.

I never thought somebody could have such an imagination and write about it in such a fantastic way. Thanks for all your great books, which I will certainly be reading again sometime.

The most amusing, most observant and most wonderful author ever. Jack Vance will forever be an inspiration for me, and I re-read his books in my collection many times over. Each time,although I know them all intimately, a deep feeling of thanks, and a wry smile from that most amazing of authors.. Not a hard act to follow, an impossible one.. nedialsko bulgaria

When I read "Son of the tree", it was love at first sight. Love for your prose, your imagination, your humor. Your stories made me feel recognized and loved.

Jack Vance has been my favourite writer for many many years. I have read and re-read his wonderful books over and over and never tired of his great prose. For me,as for many others, Jack Vance will never die. He has just gone to another universe to make it a better place.

See you in water planet

Le plus extraordinaire et merveilleux auteur de Sf que j'ai lu. Inégalé dans sa prose et dans l'imagination de ses mondes. Il me manque déjà...

Merci a toi Mr.Jack Vance de m'avoir fait aimer d'ouvrir un livre et de me faire rever dans tes mondes magnifique. repose en paix tu nous manquera vieux.

Thanks for writing marvelously Science Fantasy! The best author ever! It was a wonderful time with your stories.

Thank you for your contribution to the world.

Fare well. I hope your journeys continue.

Sad news. With any luck Jack is now visiting worlds similar to those he wrote about. What a terrific author, and the worlds loss. R.I. P Jack.

My favorite author. A sort of second father. The sort of writer that you dreamed would exist, long before the understanding that he actually did.

Zo veel zalige uren heb ik doorgebracht in uw verhalen. Ik voelde mezelf telkens een held in fantastische werelden en vreemde avonturen. Van weinig schrijvers heb ik zo genoten. Ge zult gemist worden... Fons Charlier

Jack restera pour toujours mon auteur préféré. J'ai lu tous ses romans et les relis encore avec toujours autant de bonheur. Lyonesse est un chef d'oeuvre absolu que je relis régulièrement, avec un emerveillement sans cesse renouvelé. Je suis très peiné par la perte de cet immense ecrivain. Mes pensées vont à ses proches et à tous ses orphelins littéraires. Bon voyage dans les étoiles et rendez-vous à la fin des temps...

I've just learned the sad news of Jack's passing as I regularly check a certain website to see if Hollywood has finally decided to start shooting his works. My sincere condolences are with the Vance family and Jack's friends at this time. His vision, wit and masterful storytelling are a wonderful and enduring tribute to his greatness. I'm glad that his long life meant that he must surely have known how highly regarded he was to millions and I hope his family will draw comfort from that enduring legacy.

Ciao

Thanks Jack, for the joy, the dreams, the sheer pleasure and light you brought to this world.

My favorite writer in any genre, I think he also serves as an example of a life well-lived.

For anyone interested who missed it, a couple years ago Starship Sofa did an audio interview with Fred Pohl and Jack Vance. Very fascinating stuff. traffic.libsyn.com/starshipsofa/StarShipSofa_Interviews_Fred_Pohl_and_Jack_Vance.mp3

I was re-reading the Demon Princes for the umpteenth time when I read the news. Farewell Jack, I hope you found your lurulu.

I hadn't heard about his death here in Germany, even though I read several newspapers. It's a shame that Jack's death went unnoticed here. I found out because in an internet forum someone asked about our favourite authors and when I wanted to link the Wikipedia article I saw the date of his death. I hope the gods grant Jack a long tour through all the worlds he has created until he retires on Sirene, wearing a Dragon Conqueror.

May his work continue to inspire an delight generations to come!

I loved the verbal skills he gave even his most minor characters. I liked his descriptions of sausages. I was especially grateful to get access to a large selection of his books when my dad was particularly ill and needed cheering up. He devoured Vance’s books, as did I and we both learned to love them. Thank you from us both.

You've been enhancing my life since the 60s. Baron Bodissey's observations are part of my brain. Thank you so much Jack. You are part of the engines of the universe now, and rightly so. Thank you again.

I think his books were probably the greatest influence in my life that got me on this road and made me want to explore the miracle that is our world for the past eight years. The meter of his books I discovered in my local library made for the most magical summer ever. Thank you, Jack.

I've felt like I've rarely regretted the loss of someone. There has never been anyone like him nor will there. It is the only author to whom, late teens, I idolized. Thanks for making me dream.

Thanks Jack. Just thanks for everything. May you rest in peace.

I. M. Jack Vance Sedert de jaren tachtig tot heden (en in de toekomst) mijn favoriete schrijver, genoten van taal, humor en tot de verbeelding sprekende omgevingen en situaties. Mijn dank voor deze ervaring.

Farewell to the most underrated American writer of our time. Thank you for the many years of pleasure and inspiration. Condolences to your family.

Ciao Jack 🙁 RIP Ora Kirth è veramente finito :'(

Thank you, for some of the great moments of my life.