The Moon Moth and Other Stories eBook Jack Vance
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A collection of Vance's early stories, including The New Prime (1950), The Men Return (1955), Green Magic (1956), Ullward's Retreat (1957), Dodkin's Job (1958), The Moon Moth (1960), Alfred's Ark (1964), Sulwen's Planet (1966), and Rumfuddle (1972).
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The Moon Moth and Other Stories eBook Jack Vance
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The Moon Moth and Other Stories eBook Jack Vance Reviews
This collection has been produced by the Vance Integrated Edition. The VIE is a massive project which recently gathered the author's preferred texts for all of Vance's work. I am ecstatic that this has been offered for at such a reasonable price. Over the years, I have purchased numerous collections of Vance stories, each time scraping up only three or four that I hadn't already read. Finally, I can read them all! Other fans of Jack Vance will recognize the joy I feel at being able to enter the Vance universe just one more time.
This e-book is possibly the strongest of the short story collections on . It contains Vance's most-beloved story, "The Moon Moth," as well as the nearly-as-beloved "Green Magic." In addition to these and other familiar stories, we get some rare goodies. "The New Prime" and "Dodkin's Job" are easily as good as most of Vance's other short stories. I recommend this collection to any Vance fan- the treasures and rarities are worth it.
What if you are new to Jack Vance? This is still a great place to start. Although it is not a "best of" or "greatest hits" collection, the quality of the stories is very high and you will not regret the time you spent with them. Each story showcases Vance's unique talents in a different way, so you will enjoy an excellent overview of the treasures to be found in his longer works.
Without a doubt, my favorite novelette of all-time is Jack Vance's "Dodkin's Job" (1959). I read this story in 2008 where it was included in Jerry Pournelle's libertarian anthology Survival of Freedom (1981). It has a collection of essays and short stories, but the words in Vance's story were the only ones that stuck with me for a long time. Its portrayal of bureaucracy, absurdity, resistance to the "organization", and blue collar tenacity left an indelible mark on the love for the SF genre.
In 2011, I took a course in M.Ed. program--Human Relations in Educational Administration. Our professor, bless and rest his soul, urged us to take a creative approach to our final individual project. I heard what my classmates were doing and I none of them sounded remotely interesting. To highlight managerial systems, I decided to reread and decode the systems found in "Dodkin's Job". The unusual approach earned me an 4.0 in the class (...and helped me on my way to a perfect 4.0 GPA for my degree, ahem).
Visit my blog for the more thorough examination of "Dodkin's Job".
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The Kokod Warriors (1952, novelette) - 5/5 - Magnus Ridolph smokes his last fine cigar and sips his last fine liqueur because the last of his money has run out, thanks to two men from the Outer Empire Investment and Realty Society. Just his luck, a woman approaches and offers him a handsome salary to rid one planet of war while ceasing the immoral betting on the same planet's wars by none other than the unscrupulous See and Holders. Once on the planet, the two men are skeptical of his presence, but Magnus has a plan.
The New Prime (1951, novelette) - 3/5 - Arthur Caversham of the planet Earth experiences a unique sort of social intuition. Bearwald of the planet Belosti must prove his aggressiveness in the heat of battle. Ceistan of the planet Praesepe must press on with a request to show his undying loyalty. Dolmor Daksat at the Imagicon on Staff must outwit his competitors in a showing of unrestrained imagination. And Ergan of the planet Chankozar experiences relentless torture through perseverance.
The Men Return (1957, shortstory) - 4/5 - In retrospect, life on Earth used to be an orderly affair when they used to take causality for granted. However, since Earth has swept into a spacial vacuum of non-causality, chaos has reigned--sane men have gone mad and insane men rule in their own fashion. Referred to as Organisms, the man men's random actions match the random ways of non-causality; the thin clan of the Relicts fear the Organisms' chaos and can't adapt to the shifting states of matter.
Ullward's Retreat (1958, novelette) - 5/5 - On an Earth with a population in the tens of billions, there are a number of luxuries; among them absolute privacy and genuine algae. Landmaster Bruham Ullward has nearly an acre of indoor space dedicated to replicating the privacy of nature with genuine shrubs he call oak trees--his guests are quite impress but he needs more. He leases half a continent on a new planet, invites the same guests, who have the same complaints.
Coup de Grace (1958, shortstory) - 3/5 - Lester Bofils Is a noted anthropologist on a luxury space station in the shape of Indra's Web, where the renowned Magnus Ridolph also temporarily resides. Upon Lester's death, Magnus leads an investigation to solve his murder. Could it be any of his shipmates, of whom are his reputed wife, an alien of inhuman regards, and a variety of other suspects. Or could Lester's own cavemen slaves have killed him, or the statuesque stoic bonze?
Dodkin's Job (1959, novelette) - 5/5 - Luke Grogatch works for the District 8892 Sewer Maintenance Department. In the all encompassing Organization in which everyone lives, Luke is a Flunky/Class D/Unskilled laborer, just one rank sky of rock bottom Junior Executive. A directive is passed down through his lonely department that mandates he must return his shovel--after a ninety minute walk--to a warehouse on his own time. Seeing the ludicrousness in the order, Luke traces the levels of bureaucracy to its very origin.
The Moon Moth (1961, novelette) - 4/5 - Edwer Thissell was a rookie statesman before being assigned as Consular Representative on the planet with only three other foreigners. Prior to his assignment, he was unprepared for the planet's culture of masks, music, and conversational singing. As if learning the social necessities wasn't enough, Edwer now has to capture an infamous assassin who has just landed on the same planet. Edwer must figure out how to identify and capture a masked man among masked men.
Green Magic (1963, shortstory) - 3/5 - His great-uncle was a dabbler in the relams of magic black, white, and even purple. But Gerald McIntyre discovers in his uncle's journal a type of magic new to himself, who is also a dab hand at magic green magic. He summons the sprites of the realm and asks to learn their trade, yet they issue him a warning to not partake in green magic. He shrugs off the suggestion and spends decades of subjective time in its tedious detail and boredom.
Alfred's Ark (1965, shortstory) - 4/5 - According to the farmer named Alfred Johnson, God has given him a biblical message of a coming flood, but not just any old flood--the Great Flood. The newspaper refuses to print the "story" so he just buys an advertisement from the them and proceeds to build an ark on his own land. Its modest size won't hold couples of all the animals, but just the one's he selects. When the day approaches and the rains falls, he doesn't seem like a such a buffoon after all.
Sulwen's Planet (1968, shortstory) - 4/5 - A thousand light-years from Earth, a small desolate planet was discovered, an on surface were a number of alien ships from two starfaring species. The finding was the single most important discovery in human history, so the Sulwen Planet Survey Commission was established with a host of top experts. Among these experts were the conflicting areas of focus and personalities of Gench and Kosmin, a philologist and comparative linguist, respectively.
Rumfuddle (1973, novella) - 3/5 - Alan Robertson was once a philanthropist and inventor. When he invented the invention to end all inventions, society was changed forever--the personal infinite-dimensional gateway. Everyone lives on their own parallel Earth after years of labor for the privilege, but one of his adoptees--now a grown man with his own family, Gilbert Duray--cannot access his Home planet. It may be his wife's doing or his meddling friend and his confounded party called a Rumfuddle.
Purchased this but I recieived "The Pleasant Grove Murders ", which I have not read but is not what I ordered.
Jack Vance transports you to worlds with intricate plots and cultures.
My all time favorite writer since the first book of his that I read .... and re-read years later with fresh enjoyment.
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It's Jack Vance. You either get him or you don't. He's a Master.
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