Ed here: A few days ago Do Some Damage ran
this informative piece on Jack Vance's mystery
career. Here's writer Brian Lindenmuth:
Monday, June 3, 2013
Jack Vance's contributions to the mystery genre
or
Jack Vance was an Edgar winner too!
A giant of
American genre fiction, Jack Vance, has died.
Vance is
well known for his science fiction and fantasy works. He arguably invented the
dying earth sub-genre and influenced generations of science fantasy writers,
without Vance you don't have Gene Wolfe for example. The style of magic he
developed in his fiction would be one of the prime influences
on Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (pdf) (gamers began to
refer to it as Vancian Magic).
He was an
accomplished musician, a merchant marine, a traveler. You name it and he did
it. And did it damn well too.
So Vance's
SF/F bonafides are solid. But the man won an Edgar for Best First Novel
in 1962 dammit and deserves to be recognized by this community too. That's what
I want to briefly focus on today, Jack Vance's contributions to the mystery
genre.
for the rest
go here:
http://dosomedamage.blogspot.com/2013/06/jack-vances-contributions-to-mystery.html
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