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David B Williams wrote:I thought it was long understood: Any SF written by Jack Vance before 1956 is of secondary quality, ...
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Steve Sherman wrote:I think it's just a bit more complex than that. After all, he was capable of Mazirian before he had published a word. 1) had to learn to write what the pulps wanted to publish (the rejection letters at the Mugar are fascinating in this regard), then2) had to learn to write that sort of stuff ("Gadget stories") in his own voice (as David says, the improvement in the Ridolphs is instructive).What I'm not sure of is when the publishers began to realize that they had something special on their hands, if indeed they ever did. By the early 50s it's clear from the correspondence that they have come to regard him as highly reliable, but I suspect they didn't grasp just how original he was for perhaps another decade.
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