Meaning of Vancian | Babel Free

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Of or relating to Jack Vance (1916–2013), American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories.

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“Vance has, in short, more than any other science fiction writer ‘colonised’ the entirely new imaginative space created by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century science of anthropology, […] Is it merely local colour? To answer that, one has to note, beneath the constant Vancean surface of strange ‘xenography’,⁸ the recurrent Vancean theme of human ‘plasticity’.”

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