Emphyrio

TitleEmphyrio
Year for Search1969
AuthorsVance, Jack [John Holbrook](1916-2013)
Date Published1989
PublisherDoubleday
Place PublishedGarden City, NY
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.

Additional Publishers

Serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742).

Holding Institutions

GU, Merril, PSt

Author Note

(1916-2013)

Full Text

1969 Vance, Jack [John Holbrook] (1916-2013). Emphyrio. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Then serialized in Fantastic 18.5 - 6 (June - August 1969): 6-77, 82; 10-83. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1970. U.K. ed. [London]: Coronet, 1980. Repub. as vol. 20 of The Complete Works of Jack Vance. Oakland, CA: Vance Integral Editions, 2002; in The Jack Vance Reader: Emphyrio The Languages of Pao The Domains of Koryphon. Ed. Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2008), 21-206 with “Emphyrio Introduction (15-19) by Robert Silverberg; and in American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1868-1969. Ed. Gary K. Wolfe (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 509-722 with a “Note on the Text” (732-33) and “Notes” (742). GU, Merril, PSt

Authoritarian dystopia based on control of utilities and religion and a monopoly of trade.