Moonhead
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According to the Grauniad's obituaries page, SF's last living legend has passed.
Jack Vance, the man who more or less invented the Dying Earth school of far future SF, and did an awful lot to refine the planetary romance and science fantasy has died. 96 is a fine age, but it would have been nice to see him make his century.
Another of the giants has passed. This is the man who who was writing fine prose and gloriously stylised dialogue back when tin ears and remedial English were the normal order of the day. Vance was a writer so far ahead of his time that it took thirty years before anybody started ripping him, and he has the most distinguished cast of imitators in all of twentieth century science fiction. Without Vance, there's have been no Gene Wolfe, no Ursula LeGuin, no Michael Moorcock or M John Harrison, no Elizabeth Hand or Michael Shea, the list is endless.
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