Fictioneer Jack Vance died Sunday, May 26, 2013, at age 96.
Vance got his start with a novelette, “The World-Thinker,” published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (Summer 1945). Beginning in 1947, his stories regularly appeared in Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder and other pulps.
He continued writing for the SF digest magazines into the mid-’60s.
Beside SF and fantasy, Vance also wrote mysteries.