Happy Birthday Jack Vance!

One of the greatest Fantasy writers of all time. His Dying Earth series is brilliant and Essential. A baroque sardonic wit. A genius of words.

http://www.jackvance.com/

http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/jvm/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Vance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_Earth_series