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Product Description: Klaus von Beyme, a highly distinguished German political scientist, has been recognised as a "Pioneer in the Study of Political Theory and Comparative Politics" When he received the highly esteemed Mattei Dogan Award during the XXII World Congress of Political Science in Madrid on 12 July 2012, in his laudatio Rainer Eisfeld portrayed Klaus v...read more

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9780312930448, titled "Araminta Station" | Tor Books, May 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | also contains Araminta Station | About this edition: Used Hardcover published by Tor Fantasy Books, N.

Paperback:

9783319015347 | Springer Verlag, November 15, 2013, cover price $54.99 | About this edition: Klaus von Beyme, a highly distinguished German political scientist, has been recognised as a "Pioneer in the Study of Political Theory and Comparative Politics" When he received the highly esteemed Mattei Dogan Award during the XXII World Congress of Political Science in Madrid on 12 July 2012, in his laudatio Rainer Eisfeld portrayed Klaus v.

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Product Description: The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc. Where princess Suldrun once meekly endured the proprieties of Castle Haidion, Madouc defends herself with rotten fruit...read more

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9780441505326 | Reprint edition (Ace Books, August 1, 1991), cover price $5.95 | also contains Tom Clancy Full Force and Effect | About this edition: Madouc, a vibrant young princess, holds the key to ending the war that ravages the Elder Isles
9780441505319 | Ace Books, April 1, 1990, cover price $8.95 | also contains How to Make Your Customers Love You!: 26 Ways to Make Your Customers Love You! | About this edition: Madouc, a vibrant young princess, holds the key to ending the war that ravages the Elder Isles

CD/Spoken Word:

9781469281384 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, February 5, 2013), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The World Fantasy Award-winning third volume of the Lyonesse trilogy brings attention to the faerie changeling Madouc.
9781469280561 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, February 5, 2013), cover price $19.99

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By Jonathan Strahan (editor)

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9781596064515 | Deluxe edition (Subterranean, February 28, 2012), cover price $45.00

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Product Description: As well as being an inspirational, acclaimed and widely adored F&SF Grand Master and world-builder par excellence, Jack Vance has always been a mystery writer at heart. Even while ranging the starways and arcane dimensions under the name we best know him by, taking us to alien worlds, strange climes and fabulous yonders, he also used his given name of John Holbrook Vance (plus a few selected aliases) to turn out novels of intrigue and suspense set on this world, dealing with people almost like you and me...read more

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9781596063594 | Subterranean, May 31, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: As well as being an inspirational, acclaimed and widely adored F&SF Grand Master and world-builder par excellence, Jack Vance has always been a mystery writer at heart.

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Product Description: A legend has to start somewhere...As so many writers have said, it's in the shorter and mid-length work that the storytelling craft is best learned. Hard-Luck Diggings brings together fourteen such pieces from the first twelve years of Grand Master Jack Vance's genre-defining career, from back when he first worked to pay the mortgage, buy the groceries, travel the world, eventually building his own private 'dream castle' and starting a family...read more

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9781596063013, titled "Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance" | 1 deluxe edition (Subterranean, June 30, 2010), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A legend has to start somewhere.

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9781596062450 | Deluxe edition (Subterranean, September 30, 2009), cover price $40.00

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Product Description: When Jack Vance decided to become a writer, a million-word-a-year man as he put it so pragmatically at the time, he also gave fantastic literature one of its most cherished and distinctive voices. Though primarily a novelist throughout his long and distinguished career, this Hugo, Nebula, Edgar and World Fantasy Award-winning Grand Master also produced many short and mid-length works...read more

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9781596062269 | 1 edition (Subterranean, June 30, 2009), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: When Jack Vance decided to become a writer, a million-word-a-year man as he put it so pragmatically at the time, he also gave fantastic literature one of its most cherished and distinctive voices.

Product Description: Myron's family insisted that he set himself on a course of sober education, the study of economics, and Myron dutifully applied himself. But Myron had an aunt - his great-aunt Hester Lajoie, a woman of great wealth and even greater flamboyance of nature...read more

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9780312858018 | Tor Books, April 1, 1998, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women

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9780312864743 | Revised edition (Tor Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A romantic tale follows a space swashbuckler and conman as he travels from world to world, plying his trade, drinking in wild bars, and flirting with women

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9781439501818 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Myron's family insisted that he set himself on a course of sober education, the study of economics, and Myron dutifully applied himself.

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The centuries-long war between humankind and the reptilian basics culminates in an epic clash between the worlds of Aerlith, a planet populated by men who have raised a race of fierce dragons as their servants, and Coralyne, where a race of dragons is served by savage mutants who were once human. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780899683782 | Lightyear Pr, March 1, 1993, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In THE DRAGON MASTERS, the first of ibooks definitive reissues of his work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the like of a boy born into and growing up in a statis, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion.

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9781416504948, titled "The Dragon Masters" | Reprint edition (Ibooks, April 1, 2005), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: The centuries-long war between humankind and the reptilian basics culminates in an epic clash between the worlds of Aerlith, a planet populated by men who have raised a race of fierce dragons as their servants, and Coralyne, where a race of dragons is served by savage mutants who were once human.
9780743497718, titled "The Dragon Masters" | Ibooks, January 1, 2005, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In THE DRAGON MASTERS, the first of ibooks definitive reissues of his work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the like of a boy born into and growing up in a statis, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion.
9780743474672, titled "The Dragon Masters" | Ibooks, August 1, 2003, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Growing up in a static, stratified society, a rebellious young man rebels against the boring ideologies and institutions of his world, in a new edition of the classic Hugo Award-winning novel.
9781596872516, titled "The Dragon Masters" | Ibooks, August 1, 2003, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In The Dragon Masters, the first of ibooks' definitive reissues of Jack Vance's work, Vance develops several races of people and follows the life of a boy born into and growing up in a static, stratified society, in which he comes into conflict and is eventually driven into rebellion.

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An omnibus collection of three works by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author follows the adventures of the Connatic, the Alastor world's vengeance-seeking ruler and includes the classic novels, Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933, and Wyst: Alastor 1716. Reprint.

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9780312869526 | Reprint edition (Orb Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: An omnibus collection of three works by the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author follows the adventures of the Connatic, the Alastor world's vengeance-seeking ruler and includes the classic novels, Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933, and Wyst: Alastor 1716.

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A legendary science fiction writer tells of a young man's quest to uncover the secret of his birth, which had been hidden by his adoptive parents, who, in turn became the victims of murder. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780312856854 | Tor Books, October 1, 1996, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Jaro Fath embarks on a dangerous and difficult quest to uncover the mystery of his origins, a secret hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their untimely murders

Paperback:

9780312864729 | Tor Books, March 1, 1998, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Jaro Fath embarks on a dangerous and difficult quest to uncover the mystery of his origins, a secret hidden by his adoptive parents and lost with their untimely murders

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Product Description: Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today. The winner of a Hugo, a Nebula, and a World Fantasy Award, Vance lays claim to a career that spans more than five decades of critical acclaim and devoted readership...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780312865764 | St Martins Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Jack Vance is undoubtedly one of the most gifted and versatile authors of science fiction today.

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One of science fiction's master storytellers spins the fascinating saga of the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for the destruction of his world, in an anthology of three classic novels. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780312863371 | Tor Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Collects three of the author's novels about the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for the destruction of his world

Paperback:

9780312853020 | Orb Books, June 1, 1997, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Collects three of the author's novels about the Demon Princes, a destructive race of beings who disguise themselves as humans, and Kerth Gersen, who is out to avenge himself for the destruction of his world

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A collection of three works follows the adventures of the Connatic, the Alastor world's vengeance-seeking ruler, and includes the classic novels, Trullion: Alastor 2262, Marune: Alastor 933, and Wyst: Alastor 1716.

Hardcover:

9780312859664 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, September 1, 1995), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A collection of three works follows the adventures of the Connatic, the Alastor world's vengeance-seeking ruler

Hardcover:

9780809502035 | Borgo Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $29.00

Paperback:

9780809512034 | Borgo Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $19.00

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Hardcover:

9780887331657 | Underwood Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Hardcover Book
9780809505098 | Borgo Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $37.00
9780887331664 | Signed edition (Underwood Books, July 1, 1993), cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780809515097 | Borgo Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $27.00

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Although the Conservancy of Cadwal has a new Charter, various factions work against it to further their own interests, and Glawen Clattuc is commissioned by the governors of the planet to apprehend the conspirators. Reprint. PW. AB.

Hardcover:

9780312851330 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, May 1, 1993), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The swirling plots and intrigue surrounding the House of Clattuc and the Conservancy of Cadwal could culminate in an interplanetary incident toppling a dozen powerful families
9780887331350 | Underwood Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Throy is volume three of the Cadwal Chronicles trilogy.

Paperback:

9780812511406 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Although the Conservancy of Cadwal has a new Charter, various factions work against it to further their own interests, and Glawen Clattuc is commissioned by the governors of the planet to apprehend the conspirators.

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Product Description: A dictionary of the Coined Words of author Jack Vance.

Hardcover:

9780887331183 | Underwood Books, November 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A dictionary of the Coined Words of author Jack Vance.

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Product Description: [Read by Elijah Alexander] All four Planet of Adventure novels in this one volume -- a must have for science fiction fans. Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who discovers the world is inhabited -- not only by warring alien cultures but by human slaves as well, taken early in Earth's history...read more

Hardcover:

9780312854874 | Tor Books, October 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Adam Reith crash lands on the planet Tschai, where he discovers warring aliens and human slaves

CD/Spoken Word:

9781504641432, titled "Planet of Adventure: City of the Chasch, Servants of the Wankh, the Dirdir, the Pnume" | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 10, 2015), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: [Read by Elijah Alexander] All four Planet of Adventure novels in this one volume -- a must have for science fiction fans.

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Product Description: Book by Vance, Jack

Hardcover:

9780887331596 | Reprint edition (Underwood Books, April 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Vance, Jack

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A collection of the author's short science fiction includes 'Dodkin's Job,' 'Masquerade on Discthropus,' 'Telek,' 'New Prime,' and 'Devil on Salvation Bluff'

Hardcover:

9780887331459 | Underwood Books, October 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of the author's short science fiction includes 'Dodkin's Job,' 'Masquerade on Discthropus,' 'Telek,' 'New Prime,' and 'Devil on Salvation Bluff'

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Glawen Clattuc, scion of one of the scientific houses of Cadwal, must discover which humans are sabotaging his planet, protected by law and covenant against colonization and exploitation. Reprint.

Hardcover:

9780312851323 | Tor Books, September 1, 1991, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The human Conservators on the planet Cadwal, a natural preserve, face a conspiracy of human and aliens to wrest away control of their world and exploit its resources
9780887331275 | Dlx sgd edition (Underwood Books, June 1, 1991), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The human Conservators on the planet Cadwal, a natural preserve, face a conspiracy of humans and aliens to wrest away control of their world and exploit its resources

Paperback:

9780812557015 | Reprint edition (Tom Doherty Assoc Llc, September 1, 1992), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: The human Conservators on the planet Cadwal, a natural preserve, face a conspiracy of humans and aliens to wrest away control of their world and exploit its resources

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Product Description: Book by Vance, Jack

Hardcover:

9780887330988 | Underwood Books, August 1, 1990, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by Vance, Jack

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