A bibliography for Jack Vance

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Ullward’s Retreat

Author: Jack Vance
Year written: 1957
Author’s age at the time: 41
Year published: December 1958
Publication: Galaxy Magazine
Dutch title: Ullwards Toevluchtsoord
French title: La retraite d’Ullward
Genre: short story, SF

Quote:

The simulated sun hung in the western sky. Ullward led the group to a sundial. “An antique, countless years old. Pure marble, carved by hand. It works too entirely functional. Notice. Three-fifteen by the shadow on the dial...” He peered at his beltwatch, squinted at the sun. “Excuse me one moment.” He ran to the control board, made an adjustment. The sun lurched ten degrees across the sky. Ullward returned, checked the sundial. “That’s better. Notice. Three-fifty by the sundial, three-fifty by my watch. Isn’t that something now?”

Republished in The Moon Moth and Other Stories, Spatterlight, 2012.