#jackvance

[golge-gezgin]

Yaşarken renkli ışıklar arasında oturup güzel şaraplar tatmalı, uzak yerlerdeki maceralarımızı tartışmalıyız; öldüğümüzde fırsat geçmiş demektir.

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[ Çorum, Boğazkale, Hattuşaş, 27.10.2024 ]

[yan-wo]

Cover art by George Moore for a rare edition of a mind-melting short story collection, The Dying Earth by Jack Vance. #scifibooks #jackvance #georgemoore https://www.instagram.com/p/CSc6JkFFB8u/?utm_medium=tumblr

[trioxina245]

The Star King (by Jack Vance, Demon Princes Books], cover art by Gino-D’Achille

[geekynerfherder]

Swipe for art #HappyBirthday to artist #VincentDiFate, born #OnThisDay in 1945 #CoolArt #Art #MagazineCover #MagazineCoverArt #CoverArt #Books #BookCover #BookCoverArt #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Cinefantastique #ForbiddenPlanet #LogansRun #ChildrenOfDune #FrankHerbert #Metropolis #TheaVonHarbou #ArthurCClarke #RayCummings #AEVanVogt #JackVance #LinCarter https://www.instagram.com/p/CH3hYYug8xN/?igshid=f7aoebkoj6n9

[retroscifiarts]

Jack Vance Book "Star King" Cover Art by Gino D'Achille 👨🏻‍🎨🎨 (1978) • ❌➡️ Follow @retro_scifiarts 🛸 • • • [Apparel can be found at] •▫️www.scifi-nation.com ▫️(Link in Bio) • • • #scifi #vintagescifi #scifiart #scifiworld #fantasyart #70s #fantasyworld #vintagebooks #scifiartwork #sciencefiction #sciencefictionart #spacesuit #sciencefictionbooks #retroart #spacefight #ginodachille #classicart #scififantasy #jackvance #fantasyfiction #scifibooks #retroscifi #classicscifi #scifination #retro_scifiarts https://www.instagram.com/p/CEK3kWHIOq7/?igshid=dvsvljgb1fht

[broken-museum-media]

R.I.P. Gene Wolfe, Aged 87

The great novelist and engineer Gene Wolfe died today aged 87. 

I had only really learned of his writings last year and had dug into the first book of his masterwork, the 1980 novel “The Shadow of the Torturer,” hailed by many as the “Ulysses of science fiction,” an understandable though not altogether accurate statement. Having nearly finished the second book of the larger work, I can say it is the most ingenious and delightfully challenging work of fiction I’ve ever read. I can only imagine what the final three parts hold in store. 

There exists a cottage industry of scholarship regarding attempts to break down and parse and simply fully appreciate the density and brilliance of the ideas contained in Wolfe’s novels. His writing is thrilling and terrifying and deeply wise and poetic in ways mirrored only by the finest writers. 

Some authors considered him one of the greatest in English, if not THE best modern writer, with comparisons to Proust and Borges and Vance and Melville a commonplace. He was not wildly popular in his lifetime, and perhaps the difficulty of the works drove people away, although I’d wager the reputation of difficulty was the actual culprit. With some attention and interest and a small investment in light research, one would find an author that rewarded at least as much as the reader invested. 

I sent him a letter of thanks a month or so ago after finding what I think was his address online. I’m not sure if he got it, but I hope he knew that one more reader had found his work and found it a treasure indeed.

[lord-nichron]

A new design for the Demon Princes project based on that clay head I did a while back. And since I have trouble staying on model I decided to draw this head 25 times...which was good since I only got a handle on it with the last four! #demonprinces #jackvance #classicscifi #visdev #characterdesign #pencil #sketch https://www.instagram.com/p/BouNn-GCv_Z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lttsqj7u9vuj

[lord-nichron]

A new addition to the clay head family! Crude sculpt for Demon Princes.⠀ ⠀ #demonprinces #sketch #clay #sculpture #waterbasedclay #bust #crude #visdev #gamedev #characterdesign #vance #jackvance #classicscifi #scifi #animation #animationdesign #noirscifi https://www.instagram.com/p/BmlHxHZHqxa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xvs9437z2eoh