Backstage with Jack Vance, Volume 2: Outlines for Three Novels

This second volume of the Backstage series completes the publication of the author's outlines for his last four novels.

The outline for Ecce and Old Earth is the briefest, yet contains many of the plot points and most of the major characters of the finished novel.

As yet untitled, the outline for Cadwal III, to be called Throy, is more extensive relative to its final version than its predecessor. Most of the final plot is here, but perhaps of greatest interest is the characteristically wistfu...