Winged Being: Thoughts on Jack Vance and Patient Explanations of the…

30 essays, which originally appeared in Cosmopolis and Exant (the electronic monthly project magazines of the Vance Integral Edition) between 2000 and 2006, rewritten for this book in 2009:  

The Science in Vance’s Fiction; 
What Kind of Artist is Jack Vance?; 
Amaranths, Hormagaunts and Seishanee; 
Sinister Old Men in Institute Black; 
The Pulpish Plot; 
Style and the Spenglerian Atmosphere; 
The Mecca of Scientism; 
The Cadwal Chronicles; 
Anti-Paul Auster; 
Jane Austen and Jack Vance; 
Locus Review Reviewed; 
Rlaru, Lurulu and the Grand Tournament At Mornune; 
Capitalist and Fascists, Citizens And Slaves; 
The Roots of Variety; 
Thomas Sowell’s Cosmic Regret; 
The Purple Magic of Sigmund Freud; 
Thoughts on Throy; 
Is Jack Vance Anti-christian?; 
Myth and a Vancian Anatomy of the New Culture; 
The Plot of Blue World; 
Between Heaven and Earth; 
How to Praise Lurulu; 
Beyond Democratic Art; 
The Aesthetics and Ideology of The Domains of Koryphon; 
Some Theoretical Aspects of The Domains of Koryphon; 
Marxist Money; 
The Situation of Infinity and The Eliatic Illusion; 
Archetypes of the Peripatetic Scamp; 
The Inner Darkness of the Winged Being; 
The Plain of Standing Stones.