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The Dragon Masters

Jack Vance

First published August 1962
Type Short Fiction
Length Novella

Notes

This short novel was first published in Galaxy, August 1962, and the first book publication was as half of an Ace Double in 1963. According to the Vance Integral Edition (http://www.integralarchive.org/essay-alun.htm), the magazine version is essentially the same as the Ace version, although "the Galaxy version is heavily edited for punctuation and sentence and paragraph breaks, whereas Ace retained more of the Vancian punctuation but were more willing to make arbitrary word changes."

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Awards

YearAwardCategoryStatus
1963 Hugo Award Best Short Fiction Winner
2012 Locus Online 20th Century Novella Nominee/Finalist

Publications (36)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1962 Galaxy Magazine, August 1962 Galaxy Publishing Corporation MAGAZINE 8
August 1962 Galaxy Magazine, August 1962 Strato Publications MAGAZINE 10
February 1963 The Dragon Masters / The Five Gold Bands Ace Books Omnibus 5
1965 The Dragon Masters Dennis Dobson Chapbook
1967 The Dragon Masters Panther Chapbook 7
September 1971 The Hugo Winners, Volume Two Doubleday Anthology 5
October 1971 The Hugo Winners, Volume Two Doubleday Anthology 5
January 1972 The Hugo Winners, Volumes One and Two Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 280
April 1972 The Dragon Masters / The Five Gold Bands Ace Books Omnibus
November 1972 The Dragon Masters Mayflower Chapbook 7
1973 The Hugo Winners Volume One 1962-1967 Sphere Anthology 20
April 1973 The Dragon Masters / The Last Castle Ace Books Collection
August 1973 Stories from the Hugo Winners, Volume 2 Fawcett Crest Anthology 18
August 1973 Stories from the Hugo Winners, Volume 2 Fawcett Crest Anthology 18
1976 The Dragon Masters Gregg Press Chapbook 1
1978 The Dragon Masters Ace Books Chapbook 5
December 1981 The Dragonmasters Ace Books Chapbook 5
June 1985 The Dragon Masters Panther / Granada Chapbook 7
1986 The Dragon Masters Grafton Chapbook
November 1988 The Dragon Masters The Easton Press Chapbook 5
December 1990 A Short, Sharp Shock / The Dragon Masters Tor Anthology 113
December 1993 The Dragon Masters Lightyear Press Chapbook
2002 The Miracle Workers / The Dragon Masters / The Last Castle Vance Integral Edition Collection 101
2002 The Languages of Pao and The Dragon Masters Vance Integral Edition Omnibus 233
August 2003 The Dragon Masters ibooks Collection |1
April 2005 The Dragon Masters ibooks Collection 3
January 2007 The Jack Vance Treasury Subterranean Press Collection 25
January 2007 The Jack Vance Treasury Subterranean Press / SFBC Collection 25
January 2007 The Jack Vance Treasury Subterranean Press Collection 25
January 2007 The Jack Vance Treasury Subterranean Press Collection 25
September 2011 The Dragon Masters and Other Stories Gateway / Orion Collection
June 2012 The Dragon Masters Spatterlight Press Chapbook |2
October 2013 Big Planet / The Blue World / The Dragon Masters and Other Stories Gollancz / Orion Omnibus 317
December 2013 The Jack Vance Treasury Subterranean Press Collection |25
April 2016 The Dragon Masters and Other Stories Spatterlight Press Collection
August 2024 The Dying Earth Series & More MotionAudiobooks Omnibus |38.025