Eight Fantasms and Magics

Eight Fantasms and Magics is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Jack Vance. It was originally published by Macmillan in 1969 and reprinted in paperback by Collier Books in 1970. No further editions have been issued.[1]

Eight Fantasms and Magics
First edition cover
AuthorJack Vance
Cover artistAnthony Sini
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction and fantasy short stories
PublisherMacmillan
Publication date
1969
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages288 pp
OCLC17424

Contents

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"The New Prime" was originally published as "Brain of the Galaxy".[2][3]

Reception

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James Blish praised Vance's "marvelous feeling for the telling of sensual detail, his incantatory tone, his muted humor, his rather arcane vocabulary, his ear for exactly the right proper names, his love for the medieval and for anachronisms in general", and found the stories to be logical fantasies in the best of that tradition, exquisitely formed and offered with the modesty of a master who does not need to distract the reader by showing off."[4] P. Schuyler Miller also reviewed the collection favorably, placing the stories on "the borderline between science fiction and fantasy" and ranking Vance as "a master of the genre."[5]

References

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  1. ^ ISFDB publication history
  2. ^ "Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections". Archived from the original on 2012-11-03. Retrieved 2013-06-01.
  3. ^ ISFDB bibliography
  4. ^ "Books," F&SF, April 1970, p. 52-3
  5. ^ "The Reference Library," Analog, April 1970, p. 165-7.