Jack Vance libro The Last Castle
Fuente: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1
John Holbrook Vance ,[1] más conocido por su pseudónimo Jack Vance, fue un escritor de fantasía y ciencia ficción nacido en San Francisco, California . Es autor, entre otras, de la saga Planeta de la aventura . Utilizó diversos pseudónimos — Peter Held, John Holbrook, John van See, Alan Wade — para firmar su trabajo, escribiendo incluso bajo el policiaco de Ellery Queen tres novelas: The Madman Theory, The Four Johns y A Room to Die in. Wikipedia

Jack Vance libro The Last Castle
Fuente: The Last Castle (1966), Chapter 2, section 1
“Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?”
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 1, "The Overworld"
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 8, section 5 (p. 904)
“An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.”
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"
Fuente: Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973), Section 2 (p. 168)
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 2, "Cil"
Jack Vance libro To Live Forever
Fuente: To Live Forever (1956), Chapter XI, section 2
Jack Vance libro Space Opera
Fuente: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 4 (p. 30)
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 3, section 2, "Faucelme"
“I still feel that we should act with restraint. It’s much easier not to do than to undo.”
Section 12 (p. 218)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 4, section 3 (p. 418)
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 25, section 3 (p. 280)
Jack Vance libro Space Opera
Fuente: Space Opera (1965), Chapter 13 (p. 134)
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 6, section 5 (p. 807)
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Erwig refilled Cugel's glass. "I consider this an important endorsement of our views!"
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 5, section 2, "The Bagful of Dreams"
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 3, section 3 (p. 731)
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984), "Morreion", Ch. 8
"Morreion"
Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
Jack Vance Lyonesse Trilogy
Fuente: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Suldrun's Garden (1983), Chapter 13, section 3 (p. 136; Shimrod to Melancthe)
“I give dignity second place to expedience.”
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 6, section 1, "The Four Wizards"
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), Cugel's Saga (1983), Chapter 4, section 2, "The Caravan"
Jack Vance Dying Earth
"Morreion", Ch. 6
Dying Earth (1950-1984), Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
Jack Vance libro Showboat World
Fuente: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 11 (p. 123)
“All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.”
Fuente: Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels, The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 7, "The Manse of Iucounu"
“The purportedly free was seldom as represented.”
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 6, "The Cave in the Forest"
“If there were no such creatures as minstrel-maidens, it would be necessary to invent them.”
Jack Vance libro The Dragon Masters
Section 7
The Dragon Masters (1962)
Section 5 (p. 177)
Short fiction, Rumfuddle (1973)
“Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.”
Jack Vance Dying Earth
Fuente: Dying Earth (1950-1984), The Eyes of the Overworld (1966), Chapter 4, "The Sorcerer Pharesm"