Reviewing the Mail: Week of October 26, 2024

I have one book this week: I bought it from That Internet Retailer soon after I hit the end of the previous Jack Vance omnibus I was working through. I suppose I'm now re-reading Vance semi-seriously, but I'll have to see how far I get. (He wrote a lot of books over a long time.)

Planet of Adventure collects four Vance novels from the late 1960s, a series all set on one planet during (I think) the Oikumene period of Vance's loose future history. A human ship crash-lands on a far alien world, and the sole survivor makes his way across that planet to escape, finding several strange and warlike alien races along the way.

This omnibus is from 1991, and it's a bit odd to see something from the very dawn of my career in the SF field still in print in the same edition all this time later. But, then again, what would you need to change? The series was long-complete even then. And it does look like the cover changed sometime in the past thirty years, from a somewhat blockier, 80s-look Tor font to the current thin lettering.