A bibliography for Jack Vance

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Temple of Han

Author: Jack Vance
Year written: 1946
Author’s age at the time: 30
Year published: July 1951
Publication: Planet Stories
Author’s title: The God and the Temple Robber
Other title(s): The Temple of Han
Dutch title: De tempel van Han
Genre: short story, SF

Well-phrased action story. It is the kind of action as in for example the 2011 Thor movie. Like in movies of that kind, the flow of the action should keep you from examining the unbelievable premises. And the reader is left with a big plot hole...

Republished in The World-Thinker and Other Stories, Spatterlight 2012