Jack Vance bibliography

This is a complete list of works by American science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance.

The Dying Earth

 * The Dying Earth (author's preferred title: Mazirian the Magician, collection of linked stories, 1950)
 * The Eyes of the Overworld (author's preferred title: Cugel the Clever, novel 1966)
 * Cugel's Saga (author's preferred title: Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight, novel, 1983)
 * The Laughing Magician (omnibus containing The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel's Saga, 2007)


 * Rhialto the Marvellous (collection of linked stories, 1984)

Lyonesse

 * Lyonesse: Suldrun's Garden (1983) (also titled Lyonesse and Suldrun's Garden)
 * Lyonesse: The Green Pearl (1985) (also titled The Green Pearl)
 * Lyonesse: Madouc (1989) (also titled Madouc)

The Demon Princes Series



 * The Star King (1964)
 * The Killing Machine (1964)
 * The Palace of Love (1967)
 * The Face (1979)
 * The Book of Dreams (1981)

The Cadwal Chronicles

 * Araminta Station (1987)
 * Ecce and Old Earth (1991)
 * Throy (1992)

Alastor

 * Trullion: Alastor 2262 (1973)
 * Marune: Alastor 933 (1975)
 * Wyst: Alastor 1716 (1978)
 * Both The Gray Prince and Maske: Thaery have backgrounds in the Alastor Cluster.

Durdane

 * The Anome (alternate title: The Faceless Man, 1973)
 * The Brave Free Men (1973)
 * The Asutra (1974)

Tschai

 * City of the Chasch (author's preferred title: The Chasch. 1968)
 * Servants of the Wankh (reissue title: The Wannek, 1969)
 * The Dirdir (1969)
 * The Pnume (1970)

Non-series science fiction novels

 * The Five Gold Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953)
 * Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953)
 * To Live Forever (1956)
 * Big Planet (1957)
 * The Languages of Pao (1958)
 * Slaves of the Klau (original title: Planet of the Damned; alternate title preferred by Vance: Gold and Iron) (1958)
 * Space Opera (1965)
 * The Blue World (1966)
 * Emphyrio (1969)
 * The Gray Prince (author's preferred title: The Domains of Koryphon) (1974)
 * Showboat World (author's preferred title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII, Big Planet) (1975)
 * Maske: Thaery (1976)
 * Night Lamp (1996)
 * Ports of Call (1998)
 * Lurulu (2004) — sequel to Ports of Call, completing a short multi-part novel

Selected novellas

 * "Overlords of Maxus" (1951 February issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories)
 * "Son of the Tree" (1951; reissued as a novel in 1964)
 * "Abercrombie Station" and its sequel "Cholwell's Chickens" (both 1952; two novellas later issued as Monsters in Orbit in 1965)
 * "Telek" (1952)
 * "The Houses of Iszm" (1954; reissued as a novel in 1964)
 * "The Miracle Workers", (1958)
 * "The Moon Moth" (1961)
 * "Gateway to Strangeness" (1962) (also titled "Dust of Far Suns" and "Sail 25")
 * "The Dragon Masters" (1963 - Hugo Award Winner)
 * "The Brains of Earth" (author's preferred title: "Nopalgarth") (1966)
 * "The Last Castle" (1966, Nebula Award winner; illustrated by Alicia Austin in 1980)
 * "Three-Legged Joe" (short story) (1953; featured in Startling Stories)
 * "Dodkin's Job"

Mystery/thrillers

 * Take My Face (1957), as "Peter Held"
 * Isle of Peril (1957), as "Alan Wade" (also titled Bird Isle)
 * Strange People, Queer Notions (1958)
 * The Man In the Cage (1960)
 * The Four Johns (1964), as "Ellery Queen" (also titled Four Men Called John, UK 1976)
 * A Room to Die In (1965), as "Ellery Queen"
 * The Fox Valley Murders (1966)
 * The Madman Theory (1966), as "Ellery Queen"
 * The Pleasant Grove Murders (1967)
 * The Deadly Isles (1969)
 * Bad Ronald (1973)
 * The View from Chickweed's Window (1979)
 * The House on Lily Street (1979)
 * The Dark Ocean (1985)

Collections

 * The World Between and Other Stories (1965)
 * The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)
 * Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969)
 * The Worlds of Jack Vance (1973)
 * Galactic Effectuator (this title is an editorial invention for the collected Miro Hetzel stories "Freitzke's Turn" and "The Dogtown Tourist Agency") (1980)
 * Lost Moons (1982)
 * The Narrow Land (1982)
 * The Augmented Agent and Other Stories (1986)
 * The Dark Side of the Moon (1986)
 * Chateau D'If and Other Stories (1990)
 * When the Five Moons Rise (1992)
 * Tales of the Dying Earth (1999)
 * The Jack Vance Treasury (2007), ISBN 1-59606-077-8
 * Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)
 * Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)

Autobiography

 * This is Me, Jack Vance! (Subterranean Press, 2009) (won the 2010 Hugo Award, Best Related Book)