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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Jack Vance, Writer of the Fantastical, Dies at 96 - The New York Times

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“The engineer in him is always on view,” Mr. Chabon said of Mr. Vance in an interview in The New York Times Magazine in 2009. “They’re always adventure stories, too, but they’re also problem-solving puzzles. He sets up these what-ifs, like a syllogism. He has that logic-love like Poe, the Yankee engineering spirit, married to erudite love of pomp and pageantry. And he has an amazing ear and writes a beautiful sentence.”
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