Download or read book The World Thinker and Other Stories (in Russian) written by Jack Vance and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume might have been titled "The Early Jack Vance", as it features stories from the first dozen years of Vance's career, when his major outlet was pulp magazines. In these stories, Vance already displays the lively imagination and mastery of the English language that came to characterize his entire career. The World-Thinker, Vance's first published story, features two types who would recur often in Vance's writing: the assured and competent hero, and the feisty, equally-competent heroine. They deal with an entity who, like Vance himself, creates fully-formed worlds at will.