Editing Jack Vance (section)

=== The Vance Integral Edition ===
An Integral Edition of all Vance's works was published in a limited edition of 44 hardback volumes. A special 45th volume contains the three novels Vance wrote as [[Ellery Queen (house name)|Ellery Queen]]. This edition was created from 1999 to 2006 by 300 volunteers working via the internet, under the aegis of the author.<ref>{{Citation
| url = http://www.integralarchive.org/base3.htm
| title = The Vance Integral Edition
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160520231910/http://www.integralarchive.org/base3.htm
| archive-date = May 20, 2016
}}</ref> The texts and titles used are those preferred by the author.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

In 2010, Afton House Books presented ''The Complete Jack Vance'' {{ISBN|978-0-9825953-0-5}} in six large volumes using texts prepared by the Vance Integral Edition. Volume six has a table of contents for the volumes; otherwise there is no [[exegesis]]. Issues of the project's magazine ''Cosmopolis'' describe the production process (of interest to anyone wishing accurate transcription of scanned text) and the detection of some surprising errors such as the scanning of "and" being recognised as "arid" (''Cosmopolis 17'', page 8) yet resulting in a sentence that is both grammatically acceptable and plausible in context: "It was hot, arid dusty." Similarly, there is no bibliography of where the stories have previously been published. Cover art may be found via [[:Category:Jack Vance book cover images]] or at geofftaylor-artist.com<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.geofftaylor-artist.com/galleries/cover-art/author/VANCE%20Jack | title=Cover Art Gallery for Jack Vance &#124; Geoff Taylor }}</ref> and many other places.

In 2012, Spatterlight Press started offering [[Digital rights management|DRM]]-free [[e-book]]s editions of many of the works of Jack Vance, based on the source texts collected by the Integral Edition project. It is the intent of Spatterlight Press to publish the complete Integral Edition in e-book form, and also as print-on-demand paperbacks.<ref>{{Citation
| url = https://www.jackvance.com/signatureseries/
| title = The Spatterlight Press Signature Series
| access-date = September 22, 2018
}}</ref>   Gollancz uses the VIE texts in their "SF Gateway" editions starting in 2012.