Books Inspired By Vance
- A Quest for Simbilis by Michael Shea (DAW, NY, 1974) (authorised sequel to the Cugel novel, Eyes of the Overworld; Shea also wrote Nifft the Lean (DAW, NY, 1982), and The Mines of Behemoth (1997) about a Cugel-like character; and In Yana, The Touch of Undying (DAW, NY, 1985) which is also Vancian)
- Dinosaur Park by Hayford Peirce (Tor, NY, 1994).
- Fane by David M. Alexander (longtime Vance friend). (Pocket Books, NY, 1981).
- Fools Errant (Aspect Books, 2001), Fool Me Twice (Aspect Books, 2001), Black Brillion (Tor, 2004), Majestrum (Night Shade Books), The Spiral Labyrinth (Night Shade), The Gist Hunter (stories) (Night Shade) by Matt Hughes
- The Pharaoh Contract (Bantam, 1991), Emperor of Everything (Bantam, 1991), Orpheus Machine (Bantam, 1992) by Ray Aldridge
- Gene Wolfe has acknowledged that The Dying Earth influenced his The Book of the New Sun.
- Dan Simmons's Hyperion series (Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion) has many echoes of Vance, explicitly acknowledged in one of the later books.
- The Golden Age by John C. Wright has some similarities to Jack Vance's works, including an ornamented language, and a baroque and sterile culture toppled by a lone individualist.
- The Arbiter Tales (1995–6), three novels by L. Warren Douglas, were strongly influenced by Vance's Alastor Cluster stories. His first novel, A Plague of Change (1992), is dedicated to Jack Vance.
- The Dog of the North (2008), a fantasy by Tim Stretton, is strongly influenced by Vance, as noted in the acknowledgements. He outlines his debt to Vance on his blog.
- Songs of the Dying Earth (2009), a tribute anthology to Jack Vance´s seminal Dying Earth series, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, both avid Vance fans.
- The Dungeons and Dragons RPG and associated literature uses a magic system inspired in part by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series
- Two Role Playing Games: Lyonesse edited by Men In Cheese and Dying Earth edited by Pelgrane Press.
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