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Bezig met laden... Minding the Stars: The Early Jack Vance Volume 4door Terry Dowling
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"Throughout his long and impressive career as a celebrated professional storyteller, Jack Vance showed a fascination not only with having characters solve mysteries in all sorts of dramatic and wondrous situations using their powers of observation, deduction and common sense, but also with the possibility of higher states of mind in play, other realms of existence, even spirit worlds."--Publisher's description. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The editors made the decision to lump all the pyschic/esp/afterlife stories into one volume, and it gets old quick.
Vance is not on stable footing here, and nowhere is this more evident than in the final story, which reads like the results of a late-night pot bullshit session on whether things like seances could have any scientific basis and if so, how would you go about testing them. Let's face it, Vance is a science fiction writer, not a scientist - the reasoning here is just embarrassing. (