First encounters

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Two books comprise my memories of first reading Jack Vance. One was The Blue World, which I bought off a revolving metal rack of paperbacks at a local bowling alley. The strangeness of the world I encountered on its first pages still contrasts with the mundane, even incongruent, setting in which I found the book. The other was Eight Phantasms and Magicks, borrowed from a local libary. The collection contains many striking stories but the one the struck me the most was "Noise". This story has a minimal plot but does has evocative imagery, which seemed to me to be its main point, and I was entranced. I would not put the story on a short list of great sf (the spiffy skiffy list), though I remember the story, or at least its effect on me, more than most I have read.

[Dizzard]

I did know until late not very much about Vance - considering that Sci-Fi is usually part of our teen-ager qualification - and what I knew I reckon was simply vague rumour, suggesting of rather tasteless space operas. Vance curiously was also considered a little bit sulfurous by some and like associated with what was to become the Heavy Metal and also with the heritage of the original Mansonic shock.
When I went on idle by Mum's in the years, I was following a radio talk show with that guy of Paris who was conducting a small and plastic Rock &nd Sci-Fi review. Vance came in like at the end row, sulfurous as ever under a critic of "Bad Ronald", which is not supposed to be Sci-fi nor Fantasy.
Later I started buying Durdane and Tchaï from a pawnshop. These were all-right and refreshing, but the french translation still was blurring the picture - and blending the Spice also. Then in a public library there was a copy of a lesser known title - I do not remember which as yet - in the original version. It was a brute and harsh fight, that gave me one-and half a day of the life and awe on an arid and dusty foreign moon, for the first time since I had been a travelling toddler together with Archie. Yet that time, the picture was not in black-and white. On the Monday, the book was back in the Library; I've never found one of my days out of the reach of Jack Vance's wisdom since that Monday.

[frankblast]

The Planet of Adventure series was my furthur introduction to Vance, as was as the amazing Emphyrio. By then I was seeking him out.

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