Hard-Luck Diggings: The Early Jack Vance
… Hard-Luck Diggings is a collection of 14 of Jack Vance’s unconnected short stories that were written early in his career, when he was perfecting his style and writing the kind of tales that were currently popular and likely to be purchased by publishers. In each of these tales the prose is sparse, the characters are quickly sketched, and the plot is fast, tight, and weird… The stories are presented in order of publication so, perhaps not surprisingly, the later ones are better… Each story in Hard-Luck Diggings is followed by a short autobiographical afterword… I learned a lot about my favorite author through these little glimpses into his life and thought this was a nice touch. Hard-Luck Diggings is a nice collection of stories for any lover of excellent speculative fiction, and a necessary one for any true Vance fan. Read the rest.
So…there’s a story called “DP!” that features creatures erupting out of the earth? Reminds me of the oil spill. Just change one letter and add some supernatural nasties…:hmmmm:
Yeah, except in the BP case, the world offered to help.
You know, come to think of it, the title of the whole anthology fits the oil disaster too. :laugh:
Ugh, Kelly! :wall: