Since January, 2002

• The Vance Archive has moved to my location at home, which unfortunately is a small bandwidth cable connection. Besides that, the website will be down at irregular intervals, since I can't spare the upload bandwidth at certain times. Also I have been unable to do anything at the site for almost a year now, sorry for that.

Since April, 2001

• 2001-04-10: Due to a vulnerability in the ftp server, ftp access is temporarily disabled. Will be fixed soon.
• 2001-04-12: The system has been upgraded, ftp is possible again.

Since December, 2000

• I've upgraded Apache and PHP, so uploading is now available again.
• I've upgraded the server OS, hopefully this will stabilize the system somewhat...
• I've added another 12 English covers, still a lot to do...
• I've added another 13 English covers, still...
• I've added another 16 English covers, still...
• I've added another 16 English covers, still...
• Still having trouble with the system, so I upgraded the hardware...

Since June, 2000

• Image Uploads have been temporarily disabled due to a vulnerability in PHP.
• You can listen to an adaptation of Jack Vance's Moon Moth at Scifi.com Seeing Ear Theatre (Real Audio required).
• I've added another 10 scans.
• The stability of the system where this webserver runs on isn't as it should be at the moment, I'm working on that...
• Ok. Our company has finally moved and things seem to get back to normal...
• I've added another 9 scans. Still about 90 to go... pfew...
• Meulenhoff has changed their website and you can see their current list of available Vance books.

Since January, 2000

• Thanks to Mr. Tamio Ito I now received information regarding Vance books published in Japan(ese).
• Added another 10 English covers.
• I've added the possibility to upload new images through your browser. Preferred file formats are JPEG, GIF. If the book is in the database please browse to that book in the database and select "upload new image" there. It might still take some time before they are put on the web, because I still will check and possibly convert them.
• Added another 13 English covers.
• Added the Finnish bibliography.
• I've added another 8 English covers and some database corrections/additions, I still have about 35 more to add. Thanks to Edmond again.
• For those fans who still do not know. A lot of fans are putting together the Vance Integral Edition (VIE). A 60 volumes set containing the complete Vance canon, with the author's preferred titles and text.
• I've added another 5 English covers, I still have about 45 more to add. Thanks to Edmond again.
• I seems that a lot of people do not know that you can click on the covers to get a bigger version! Just try (at least most of them are way bigger then the small ones).
• For those who have covers and don't see them om my site, just mail them (preferably as a JPG) to me (vance@hwh.nl). Be sure to mention the following information of the book: name of the book, publisher and year of print. Any extra information that I seem to be missing (ISBN, hardcover/paperback) is appreciated. Also your name if it is not mentioned in your From address, so that I can put you in my credits list. It might take some time before I put them on the site due to my workload... please be patient...

Since October, 1999

• Adding more covers to the English section, thanks to Edmond Ferdinandus.
• Started putting miscellaneous information in the English, German, Italian, Dutch and Swedish section.
• Besides the French covers all covers are now available through the database.

Since May, 1999

• Want to collect ALL Vance books? Subscribe for the Vance Integral Edition!
• Updating the database...
  Put the Hungarian books in the database.
  Updated the Dutch books till 1994.
  Adding covers to the Dutch part thanks to Herman Schwartz.
  Added covers to the Italian part.
  Update Italian information on several Editrice Nord books.
• I'm now running the Vance Archive on a slightly faster system.
• I've added crosslinks in the database area to possible translations of the original English book.
• You can order some German Vance Books (Limited Editions) at Edition Andreas Irle. You can also find some more information there about Vance.
• Thanks to István Nemes I updated the Hungarian biblio.
• Put the English stories in the database.

Since July, 1998

• 
  Peter Booth has just informed me that he has started to setup a Jack Vance Appreciation Webring. So Vance lovers with their own pages about Jack... Join our ring!
• I would also like to point out that Peter has some good reviews on several Vance books. (Not that I entirely agree with all his reviews, Araminta Station is one of my personal favourites. But I'll guess everyone is entitled to his own opinions... ;-)
• One other note: You undoubtedly will have noticed that a lot of information is not up to date. I'm working on a solution for that particular problem and that will almost certainly result in moving the current database to another OS Platform and another SQL-server. The plan is to have a database where everyone can submit changes or new books and even automaticcaly upload images. These changes will then be approved by appointed persons who can activate the submitted changes. I think it is about the same scheme as they use on the famous Internet Movie DataBase. I'll try to make my first draft of the database setup available shortly.

Since April 2, 1998

• Unfortunately Jack Vance will not be coming to the Netherlands... He has declined Meulenhoff's invitation for personal reasons. The only news (according to Meulenhoff) is that there will be a large interview in one of the countries biggest newspapers. I'll try to translate the article when I see it in the papers...
• For some weeks Ports of Call ,and almost simultaneous the Dutch translation De Wilde Vaart, have been for sale in the stores. I got my copy at Colloseum Books in New York (No! I didn't go myself! I did ask a friend who went there to pick one up!)

Since December 20, 1997

• I'm busy reading my Vance feedback of the last year... Oops! I'm doing it in reverse order...

• The German Bibliography and Covers section have been updated thanks to Marc "Jantiff" Hermann!
• According to Meulenhoff Jack Vance will visit the Netherlands (!) in 1998...

Since Oktober 2, 1997

• Thanks to Marc "Jantiff" Hermann who will be adding information to the German Database.

• Thanks again to Marc "Jantiff" Hermann who has supplied me with some new German Covers. Soon on the web...

Since March 10, 1997

• Finally! For all the Dutch Fans: Meulenhoff in on the internet! Watch "Nachtlamp" at number one in the top 10!

• March 10, 1997: Vance wins Grand Master Award!

Since January 30, 1997

• It is finally done, I've decided to move the archive...

  New adress is:

  http://vance.hw.nl/

  If everything works ok, you should not notice it... That is, if your browser understands HTTP 301 responses. Ok, it is a bit slower. This machine is only a good old 386DX/40Mhz with 8 Mb RAM...

• I have added some crosslinks in the database, so you can see all books published by a publisher or published in a year.

• I fixed a lot of info in the English database, and I am currently writing software for remote database editing. I already am modifying the database remotely, but some security patches have still to be made.

• I put the Swedish books in the database. I had some trouble with the special characters...

• February 8: I put the Italian books in the database.

• I am working on putting the Dutch books in the database too, next will probably be the Hungarian books. I still have to figure out a way to put the English stories in the database.

Since December 18, 1996

• I made a new database from scratch, this one is a lot faster and it is a SQL database.

• Alas guys, the Vance Archive will be moving again!!! (does it ever end?). Hopefully you will not notice the change, but plans are that it will be moved just after the New Year, which reminds me of wishing you the best... The new address will be...

  vance.hw.nl

  Yes!!! Hopefully I will also be finished putting a lot of data in the database. Which I will probably set up in such a way that a group of people can modify and add data to the archive online!

Since July 09, 1996

• I'm working on putting everything in a (relational) database. Currently the English books are available (no stories yet!).

• Had some frame overkill, removed it.

• The Request Form now works after quick hack, I have to fix it properly when I find some more time...

• Due to a server upgrade a lot of the programs did not seem to work anymore (for several reasons), I fixed the marketform, requestform, etc...

Since June 11, 1996

• Nachtlamp has been out for a while now in the Dutch stores.

• The newest Vance Phile is out! HTML version will follow soon!

• Hmm, I'm wondering, there are so many rating sites nowadays, that I'm thinking about setting up a "rating site" rating site, which rates the quality of the rating site. Anyway, without padding myself too hard on the chest, I'm glad that this site is rated on such sources as T-Way 500 Winner, PC/Computing Best 1,001 > sites, www yellow pages, PCMagazine "The top 100 web sites", and Point's Top 5% of all web sites.

  Seems to me that there are either a lot of Science Fiction fans on the rating committees or that some people feel that putting real information on the web is more important than showing shockwave/java/animations and in general blasting people eye-balls to (cyber-)smithereens.

• JOY! JOY! After a server upgrade and movement to another physical location our current link to the internet has been improved! We now have a 0.5 Mb/s link, so the archive will be faster to access (* unless there are other hickups on the route between you and me *). It also might take a day or so for all nameservers to obtain our new ip-address.

• You can now SEARCH through the vance archive, using my company's search engine, be sure to search through appropriate vance section. Sorry, but the engine is in Dutch only, but it won't be that hard to understand. Enter you keywords after "Zoeken naar", select "vance" from the select box, "Resultaten" lets you determine the number of results it should return (from 1 to 100) and press "Zoek-NU" to start the search. "Niets gevonden" means nothing found. One special note: Search results which return something with "(DZN)" means the document contains no title. This is because I used to put no titles in all the documents. I have to work on these...

Since March 07, 1996

• See what www.pointcom.com has to say about this site.

• Nachtlamp will be soon available in the Netherlands, this translation of Nightlamp will look like this:

  

• The Book Market is back!

• You can now send message to me again!

• There are plans for setting up a mirror site in the US. This would at least diminish the traffic on the already slow US-Europe lines...

• As Netscape users might have noticed... I've added frames to the vance-archive. I hope navigating through the archive will now be easier using the table of contents on the left of the screen.

• Thanks to Marc 'Jantiff' Hermann a lot more german book covers (250 Kb!)

Since January 25, 1996

• As you might have noticed there have been a lot of movements going on with this archive, but I can now give you it's permanent address:

  http://www.hw.nl/~remy/

  Please update your bookmarks to this adres!

Since January 1, 1996

• Finally found the time to get the French biblio up to date.
  Thanks Jean Michel Ferragatti, Jean-Jacques Girardot, Jean-Pierre Melaye, Ludovic Lefebvre and Andy Gilham.
• Some additions made to the Italian biblio.
  Thanks Francesco Marcolla and sascal@mbox.vol.it.
• There are some new French covers available
• PLEASE NOTE that currently all covers can't be seen, I will change that shortly, and chances are that the Vance archive will then also move to another location... Having the pictures on a different site then the pages is not easy...
• Got the Book Market working again (a complete new server with a lot of differences to the standard one crashed the previous one)

Since Oktober 26, 1995

• Due to too much diskspace usage on the server the covers have moved to another (unfortunaly slower) location. The only advantage is that all are now available through anonymous ftp (ftp://ftp.hw.nl/pub/vance/).

Since September 28, 1995

• The latest Vance Phile is out!

• Two new French Covers, thanks go to Alain Cedelle.

• Added mailto to the market place add's.

• Changed some of the layout for people using netscape on black & white monitors.

Since July 12, 1995

• I'm kind of busy lately, I hope that I'll have some time in August to add some more things to this site.

• Still busy on the French Biblio, Jean Michel Ferragatti just keeps sending me info concerning French translations, and I only have the time to add a few at the time.

• The newest Vance Phile will be out in September. Leon Janzen's article will be on Emphyrio

• Converted all gif-images to interlaced gif-images.

Since May 16, 1995

• Still busy with the French additions.

• Cleaning up a lot (and I mean a lot!) of html-files which had bad HTML codes.

Since April 4, 1995

• Put in some additions to the French Bibliography. Thanks to Jean Michel Ferragatti.

Since March 2, 1995

• I have added a Marketplace.

Since February 10, 1995

• The newest Vance Phile is out!

• Thanks to Gregg for 19 new English Scans.

• I'm trying to add some nicer layout for people using newer browsers like Netscape, etc.

Since January 3, 1995

• Sorry for all you Vance fans who are desperately waiting for the appearance of the Spanish, Finnish and Hungarian bibliographies, but I can't seem to find the time to really work on that right now.

• Ok, I finally have something of the Hungarian Bibliography.

• Jerry Hewett will sent me regular (and I finally put it there) updates for his book The Work of Jack Vance

Since December 6, 1994

• The latest version of Hans Verkuil's English Bibliography is out!

• 6 new Hungarian covers. Thanks to Endre Zsoldos.

• 18 new English covers. Thanks to Hans Verkuil.

• Changed the English Cover Page, the covers are now listed per book.

Since November 18, 1994

• Added information concerning Meulenhoff translators

• Finishing the French Bibliography. Thanks to Andy Gilham for the information.

• A Finnish, a Hungarian and a Spanish Bibliography are in planning stage...

Before November 18, 1994

• Additional printing information was added to several books of the English Bibliography

• Additions to the Dutch Bibliography:
  • New book: Vancextasy
  • New book: De domeinen van Koryphon
  • New print: De stervende aarde
  • New print: De ogen van de Overwereld
  • New print: Cugel gewroken

• 23 new English covers (BIG! ± 300 Kb!)

• Additions to the Dutch Bibliography:
  • New book: Mega-SF [A]
  • New book: SFantastisch Weer [A]
  • The stories contained in De ogen van de Overwereld [C]

• Jack Vance sold the following two novels to Tor:
  • Night Lamp
  • Ports of Call

• Issue #4 of the Vance Phile

• Tim Underwood and Chuck Miller from Underwood-Miller have split up and gone their seperate ways.

• Underwood-Miller's last book, a redo of The Dying Earth, is available from Charles F. Miller, Publisher as well as Underwood Books.

  $60 signed, 500 copies. $160 lettered, 52 copies.

  (See the latest Vance Phile for addresses)

• The Work of Jack Vance should be ordered from Underwood Books.

  $49.50, Hardcover, 293 pages.

  A complete bibliography and guide of Jack Vance's work. Includes his published and unpublished writings, other media, interviews, honours and awards, GoH appearances, and more.

  #29 in the bibliographies of modern authors series.