Jack Vance Books in Order
Explore the Jack Vance tribute books edited by George RR Martin in order, with summaries, quick background, and notes on the Dying Earth setting.
Last updated: December 27, 2025
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Publication Order
83 books
Minding the Stars
by Jack Vance
2013
Magic Highways
by Jack Vance
2013
Tschai
by Jack Vance
2012
The View from Chickweed’s Window
by Jack Vance
2012
The Pleasant Grove Murders
by Jack Vance
2012
The House on Lily Street
by Jack Vance
2012
The Fox Valley Murders
by Jack Vance
2012
The Flesh Mask
by Jack Vance
2012
The Dark Ocean
by Jack Vance
2012
The Cadwal Chronicles
by Jack Vance
2012
Strange People, Queer Notions
by Jack Vance
2012
Dream Castles
by Jack Vance
2012
Deadly Isles
by Jack Vance
2012
Bird Isle
by Jack Vance
2012
The Wannek
by Jack Vance
2011
The Magnificent Showboats
by Jack Vance
2011
The Domains of Koryphon
by Jack Vance
2011
The Chasch
by Jack Vance
2011
Clarges
by Jack Vance
2011
Hard Luck Diggings
by Jack Vance
2010
This Is Me, Jack Vance!
by Jack Vance
2009
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance
by Robert Silverberg
2009
A tribute anthology edited by George RR Martin and Gardner Dozois, set in Jack Vance’s far-future Dying Earth. The stories riff on tricky wizards, doomed bargains, and decadent cities, capturing the setting’s mix of dark humor, beauty, and menace.
The Laughing Magician
by Robert Silverberg
2006
Lurulu
by Jack Vance
2004
Ports of Call
by Jack Vance
1997
Night Lamp
by Jack Vance
1996
Throy
by Jack Vance
1992
Ecce and Old Earth
by Jack Vance
1991
Madouc
by Jack Vance
1989
Araminta Station
by Jack Vance
1987
The Green Pearl
by Jack Vance
1985
The Complete Magnus Ridolph
by Jack Vance
1985
Magnus Ridolph
by Jack Vance
1985
Rhialto the Marvellous
by Robert Silverberg
1984
The Jack Vance Lexicon
by Jack Vance
1983
Suldrun's Garden / Lyonesse
by Jack Vance
1983
The Book of Dreams
by Jack Vance
1981
Miro Hetzel
by Jack Vance
1980
Galactic Effectuator
by Jack Vance
1980
The Seventeen Virgins
by Robert Silverberg
1979
The Face
by Jack Vance
1979
The Bagful of Dreams
by Robert Silverberg
1979
Wyst
by Jack Vance
1978
Morreion
by Robert Silverberg
1978
Freitzke’s Turn
by Jack Vance
1977
Maske
by Jack Vance
1976
The Dogtown Tourist Agency
by Jack Vance
1975
Showboat World
by Jack Vance
1975
Marune
by Jack Vance
1975
The Gray Prince
by Jack Vance
1974
A Quest for Simbilis
by Robert Silverberg
1974
Trullion
by Jack Vance
1973
The Brave Free Men
by Jack Vance
1973
The Asutra
by Jack Vance
1973
Bad Ronald
by Jack Vance
1973
The Anome / The Faceless Man
by Jack Vance
1971
The Pnume
by Jack Vance
1970
The Dirdir
by Jack Vance
1969
Servants of the Wankh
by Jack Vance
1969
Emphyrio
by Jack Vance
1969
City of the Chasch
by Jack Vance
1968
The Palace of Love
by Jack Vance
1967
The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph
by Jack Vance
1966
The Last Castle
by Jack Vance
1966
The Eyes of the Overworld / Cugel the Clever
by Robert Silverberg
1966
The Brains of Earth
by Jack Vance
1966
The Blue World
by Jack Vance
1966
Cugel's Saga / Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
by Robert Silverberg
1966
Space Opera
by Jack Vance
1965
Monsters in orbit
by Jack Vance
1965
The Star King
by Jack Vance
1964
The Killing Machine
by Jack Vance
1964
The Dragon Masters
by Jack Vance
1962
Man in a Cage
by Jack Vance
1961
Slaves of the Klau / Gold and Iron
by Jack Vance
1958
The Languages of Pao
by Jack Vance
1957
To Live Forever
by Jack Vance
1956
The Houses of Iszm
by Jack Vance
1954
Vandals of the Void
by Jack Vance
1953
Big Planet
by Jack Vance
1952
Son of the Tree
by Jack Vance
1951
The Five Gold Bands / The Space Pirate
by Jack Vance
1950
The Dying Earth / Mazirian the Magician
by Robert Silverberg
1950
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