- The Cadwal Chronicles 2 : Ecce and Old Earth
The Cadwal Chronicles 2 : Ecce and Old Earth The planet Cadwal has an ecosystem unique in the human-explored galaxy. A thousand years past it was set aside as a natural preserve, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation. But there is a conspiracy to open the planet and its rich resources to commerce. Glawen Clattuc must find who is behind the sabotage, and bring them to justice - but discovers that his own family is involved! Ancient crimes will be discovered, along with the key to the crisis which threatens Cadwal. - summary from the official Jack Vance website Original etching by Paul Rhoads; digital colouring and typesetting by Howard Kistler. - The Dark Ocean
The Dark Ocean Betty Haverhill leaves San Francisco on an Italian freighter bound for ports in El Salvador, Panama, Venezuela, Spain and Italy. Among the passengers is Mik Finsch, a mysterious man-of-the-world. Betty's mild flirtation with Mik ends in a fight and the suicide of one of the passengers. Another "suicide" leaves no doubt in Betty's mind that Finsch is a murderer, and soon she's fighting for her own life. - summary from the official Jack Vance website - The View from Chickweed's Window
The View from Chickweed's Window Orphan Luellen Enright is sent to live with her aunt and uncle's family in San Francisco. Lulu has trouble with her new family and eventually is sent to a state home. She returns as a young woman to regain her father’s legacy, and uncovers an ugly family secret. - summary from the official Jack Vance website - Elysium
Elysium original title In Elysium With Ginesia And Piet (dedicate to my grandmother Ginesia, and inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian) - The Genesee Slough Murders
The Genesee Slough Murders Cover for the unfinished third Joe Bain novel. The plot outline is included in the Joe Bain omnibus edition, and this cover was created in order to include it in the omnibus cover image. - The Cadwal Chronicles 3 : Throy
The Cadwal Chronicles 3 : Throy The Conservancy of Cadwal has a new Charter- thanks to the courage of Glawen Clattuc and his beloved Wayness Tamm. But this has not brought peace to the people of Cadwal - instead, it has polarized them. Led by exiles, anti-Conservancy forces continue work to open Cadwal to commercial exploitation, while a new extremist faction seeks to restore Cadwal to entirely natural condition. In the middle are the governors of the planet, and their police force. Newly-promoted Commander Glawen Clattuc is charged with apprehending the conspirators wherever they might flee, but he also has a personal agenda. After twenty years, he will solve the mystery of his mother's death. - summary from the official Jack Vance website Original etching by Paul Rhoads; digital colouring and typesetting by Howard Kistler. - The House On Lily Street
The House On Lily Street Welfare worker Paul Gunther is killed when he looks into the blackmailing of some of his cases. Lieutenant George Shaw leads the murder investigation, which touches on the jazz community and beatnik culture of Oakland in the early 1960's. - summary from the official Jack Vance website - Winter's Evasion
Winter's Evasion - Limbo
Limbo original title In Limbo With Scott And Maurits (dedicated to my friend Scott Silva, and inspired by the artist M. C. Escher) - Bird Isle
Bird Isle Coves has more land on Bird Island than he can use. So he sells, using proceeds to renovate his hotel. He's happy with his buyers until he finds that none are exactly what they said they were. And one - or more - is bent on trouble. - summary from the official Jack Vance website - Shamayim
Shamayim original title In Heaven With George And Roger (dedicated to my uncle George, and inspired by the artist Roger Dean) - The Man Who Walks Behind
The Man Who Walks Behind Cover for the novel written by Jack Vance and published under the Ellery Queen name as "The Madman Theory". - The Rapparee
The Rapparee The galaxy is full of wealthy planets and haughty aliens who guard the technology of interstellar travel. Earth must pay a price for use of the space drive, and this rubs Paddy Blackthorn the wrong way- so he sets out to steal the secret. The powerful Shauls capture and dump him on a barren planet - yet here he acquires five golden bands containing the very data he is after. The information is coded - and while Paddy solves the puzzle he must evade a galactic manhunt! - summary from the official Jack Vance website - Bad Ronald
Bad Ronald Misfit teenager Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a neighborhood girl, and his hyper-protective mother hides him between the walls of their house. Years pass, and Ronald's mind slips into delusional fantasy. When his mother dies a new family with three teenage daughters moves in. Things go badly when Ronald decides the youngest belongs in his imaginary world. - summary from the official Jack Vance website - The Cadwal Chronicles
The Cadwal Chronicles For centuries the breathtakingly beautiful planet Cadwal has been held in trust by a centuries-old Charter of Conservancy, created by the now-defunct Naturalist Society on Old Earth. Over time, restrictions on population expansion written into the Charter have become irksome to some who live on Cadwal—those who would take the unexploited wealth of Cadwal for themselves, also those forced to leave the planet to keep population in check. Glawen Clattuc grows to manhood within the insular community of Araminta Station, the primary settlement on the planet, and becomes attuned to conflicts among the parties wishing to break free of the Charter. He joins the Constabulary, and ties mysterious events and circumstances together. To uphold the Conservancy, much depends upon locating the original Charter document, which has been lost for many years; Glawen is chosen to search for the Charter, on backwater Earth and worlds beyond. - summary from the official Jack Vance website Original painting by Paul Rhoads; typesetting by Howard Kistler. - Mechanical Heart
Mechanical Heart - Tartarus
Tartarus original title In Hell With Howard And Syd (dedicated to my father, and inspired by the artist Syd Mead) - Watercast
Watercast - Chiroglyphs
Chiroglyphs - Navigator
Navigator - Skywatch
Skywatch - Necker
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