John Holbrook Vance

Jack Vance is best known for his fantasy and science fiction. He won the Hugo award (given by the World Science Fiction Society) for *The Dragon Masters* (1963); both Hugo and Nebula (given by Science Fiction Writers of America) for *The Last Castle* (1966); and the World Fantasy Award for *Lyonesse: Madouc* (1990). He has also written eleven "straight" murder mysteries under his full name John Holbrook Vance - one of which, *Bad Ronald* (1955), has been filmed both in English and in French - and four under the house pseudonym Ellery Queen. Between 1998 and 2005, a group of fans around the world compiled the *Vance Integral Edition* of his written fiction, correcting errors that have crept in as well as undoing the butchery of editors. The edition comprises 44 volumes, of which 22 were published in 2003 and the remainder in 2005.