Jack Vance bibliography

Fantasy

Science fiction

The Demon Princes Series

Main article: Demon Princes

• The Star King (1964)
• The Killing Machine (1964)
• The Palace of Love (1967)
• The Face (1979)
• The Book of Dreams (1981)

Non-series science fiction novels

• The Five Gold Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953)
• Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953)
• To Live Forever (1956)
• Big Planet (1957)
• The Languages of Pao (1958)
• Slaves of the Klau (original title: Planet of the Damned; alternate title preferred by Vance: Gold and Iron) (1958)
• Space Opera (1965)
• The Blue World (1966)
• Emphyrio (1969)
• The Gray Prince (author's preferred title: The Domains of Koryphon) (1974)
• Showboat World (author's preferred title: The Magnificent Showboats of the Lower Vissel River, Lune XXIII South, Big Planet) (1975)
• Maske: Thaery (1976)
• Night Lamp (1996)
• Ports of Call (1998)
• Lurulu (2004) — sequel to Ports of Call, completing a short multi-part novel

Selected novellas

• "The Potters of Firsk" (1950)
• "Overlords of Maxus" (1951 February issue of Thrilling Wonder Stories)
• "Son of the Tree" (1951; reissued as a novel in 1964)
• "Abercrombie Station" and its sequel "Cholwell's Chickens" (both 1952; two novellas later issued as Monsters in Orbit in 1965)
• "Telek" (1952)
• "Three-Legged Joe" (short story) (1953; featured in Startling Stories)
• "Sjambak" (first published in If: Worlds of Science Fiction magazine, July, 1953)
• "The Houses of Iszm" (1954; reissued as a novel in 1964)
• "The Miracle Workers", (1958)
• "Dodkin's Job" (1959)
• "The Moon Moth" (1961)
• "Gateway to Strangeness" (1962) (also titled "Dust of Far Suns" and "Sail 25")
• "The Dragon Masters" (1963 - Hugo Award Winner)
• "The Brains of Earth" (author's preferred title: "Nopalgarth") (1966)
• "The Last Castle" (1966, Nebula Award winner; illustrated by Alicia Austin in 1980)

Mystery/thrillers

• Take My Face (1957), as "Peter Held"
• Isle of Peril (1957), as "Alan Wade" (also titled Bird Isle)
• Strange People, Queer Notions (1958)
• The Man In the Cage (1960)
• The Four Johns (1964), as "Ellery Queen" (also titled Four Men Called John, UK 1976)
• A Room to Die In (1965), as "Ellery Queen"
• The Fox Valley Murders (1966)
• The Madman Theory (1966), as "Ellery Queen"
• The Pleasant Grove Murders (1967)
• The Deadly Isles (1969)
• Bad Ronald (1973)
• The View from Chickweed's Window (1979)
• The House on Lily Street (1979)
• The Dark Ocean (1985)

Collections

• Future tense. 1964.
• The World Between and Other Stories (1965)
• The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridolph (1966)
• Eight Fantasms and Magics (1969)
• The Worlds of Jack Vance (1973)
• The Best of Jack Vance (1976)
• Galactic Effectuator (this title is an editorial invention for the collected Miro Hetzel stories "Freitzke's Turn" and "The Dogtown Tourist Agency") (1980)
• Lost Moons (1982)
• The Narrow Land (1982)
• The Augmented Agent and Other Stories (1986)
• The Dark Side of the Moon (1986)
• Chateau D'If and Other Stories (1990)
• When the Five Moons Rise (1992)
• Tales of the Dying Earth (1999)
• The Jack Vance Treasury (2007), ISBN 1-59606-077-8
• Wild Thyme, Green Magic (2009)
• Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2010). Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance, Volume One. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596063013.
• Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2012). Dream Castles : The Early Jack Vance, Volume Two. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596064515.
• Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2013). Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596065604.
• Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2014). Minding The Stars: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Four. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596066458.
• Dowling, Terry & Jonathan Strahan, eds. (2015). Grand Crusades : The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five. Subterranean Press. ISBN 978-1596067103.

Autobiography

• This is Me, Jack Vance! (Subterranean Press, 2009) (won the 2010 Hugo Award, Best Related Book)