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The Narrow Land by Vance, Jack is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Narrow Land about?
"Where Hesperus Falls", one of the seven short stories in this collection. Vance has that great skill of marrying the mundane and the fantastic, and of spicing that mixture throughout with chilling humour and elegant twists. Along with "The Masquerade on Dicantropus", "The World Thinker", and "The Ten Books", these are examples of Vance's more mainstream "science-fiction" style. More familiar to readers of Vance's novels will be the title story "The Narrow Land", which weaves a complete description of an intriguing eco-system within 24 pages that most other authors would struggle to match with 240. Again, the first line hits the reader with immediacy: "A pair of nerves joined across the top of Ern's brain ..." "Green Magic" is a cautionary tale, related in typical Vancian straight-forward style. "Chateau D'If" is another of those little classics -- an enjoyable story that, once read, seems to have been of classic proportions.
Who reads The Narrow Land?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Vance, Jack
- Publisher
- Coronet Books
- Published
- 1982
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (110 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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