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Jack vance dead at 96
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_23348947/author-jack-vance-dies-at-home-oakland
Jack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has passed away. He was 96.
Vance's son, John Vance II, says his father died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland.
Jack Vance, whose legal name was John Holbrook, published most of his work as Jack Vance, but also wrote under the names John Holbrook Vance, Ellery Queen, Alan Wade, Peter Held, John van See and Jay Kavanse.