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Emphyrio by Jack Vance

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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When is the last time you saw Richard Matheson, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, Jack Vance, A.E. van Vogt, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, Poul Anderson or Frank Herbert mentioned in any list of significant West Coast authors? Even science fiction writers who 'crossed over' into respectability, such as Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin and Ray Bradbur…

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