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Cosmopolis#03

Is Vance a Science Fiction Author? p5, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#04

What Sort of Artist is Jack Vance? p5, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#05

Some Reactions to Critical Appreciations, p5, Paul Rhoads

 

What is Science Fiction? p15, Bob Lacovara

Cosmopolis#06

Is Jack Vance a Science Fiction Writer? p15, Andy Gilham

 

The Trouble with Science Fiction (Reply to Gilham), p16, Paul Rhoads

 

Related Comments: Lee Lewis, Bob Lacovara, David Hecht

Cosmopolis#07

A Studied Whimsy (Lyonesse), p1, Timothy Virkkala

 

Anti-Science Fiction Redux, p9, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#08

Reflections on The Cadwal Chronicles, p6, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#12

Wild Thyme and Violets (Stark, Red-hot Jazzing Seven), p2, Paul Rhoads

 

Is Vance a {Insert Genre Here} Writer? p10, Tonio Leowald

 

Reply to Leowald, p11, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#13

Will the Popularization of Jack Vance Save the West from Plunging into a New Dark Age?
   p1, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#14

Reflections on Contemporary Literature, Part 1 (Paul Auster), p3, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#15

Who Cares if Vance is a Sci-Fi Author? p17, Paul Rhoads

 

Jane Austen and Jack Vance, p18, Paul Rhoads

 

Reaction to Reflections on Contemporary Literature, Part 1, p21, Bill Sherman

 

Response to Bill Sherman, p22, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#16

Idle Thoughts of an Idle VIE Volunteer (Meet Miss Universe, The Murth), p5, Paul Rhoads

 

Reaction to Reflections on Contemporary Literature, Part 1, p8, Timothy Virkkala

 

Responce to Timothy Virkkala, p9, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#19

Reflections on Being a Vance Reader, in Light of the War on the West, p3, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#21

Alfred�s Arc, p6, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#22

In Favor of Science Fiction? (Draft intro SF vol. Pao, Dragon Masters, H.G. Wells),
   p10. Paul Rhoads

 

Response to: In Favor of Science Fiction? p22, Rob Friefeld

Cosmopolis#23

SF Volume Intro Redux, p15, Paul Rhoads

 

Reactions to: In Favor of Science Fiction? Mike Ralston, Derek W. Benson,
   Rob Gerrand, James Jordan

Cosmopolis#24

Engineers and Artists, p3, Paul Rhoads

 

Vance in France (Crisis of the West), p5, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#25

Locus Review Reviewed (Jonathan Strahan on Gift Volume), p22, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#26

Vance and Politics: Locus Review Reviewed Redux, p4, Timothey Virkkala, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#27

The Logan Square Book Club vs. Jack Vance (Night Lamp), p1, Chuck King

 

Reaction to The Logan Square Book Club, p29, Derek Benson

 

Jacks: London and Vance, p8, Paul Rhoads

  Notes from France, and Related Rambling Ruminations (Vancian perspective on
   contemporary anti-fascism and ideological hypocracy), p9, Paul Rhoads

 

An Antidote to the Modern Educational Malaise, p20, William Tahil

Cosmopolis#28

Reaction to The Logan Square Book Club (Emphyrio, Night Lamp), p6, Paul Rhoads

 

More on Science Fiction (Huddleston/Vance interview), p12, Timothy Virkkala,
   Byron Marshall, Paul Rhoads

 

Science Fiction, Astrology, Makers of Talismans, p22, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#29

Depth and Character Development, p8, Timothey Virkkala, Byron Marshall, Paul Rhoads

 

Reaction to The Logan Square Book Club vs. Jack Vance, p24, John Avelis Jr.

Cosmopolis#30

Plot, Schplot! p10, Jeremy Cavaterra

 

Literary Depth Redux (Ford Madox Ford, Wyst), p12, Paul Rhoads

 

A Visit to Llalarkno, p14, Paul Rhoads

 

A Dying World, p16, Paul Rhoads

 

A Thought About Thought (Catholic and Marxist economics, Emphyrio), p21, Paul Rhoads

 

Iris Murdoch (An Accidental Man), p23, Paul Rhoads

 

Letter (Christianity, Islam, Ports of Call, Virginia Woolf, science fiction), p25, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#31

A Thesis (Introduction by Patrick Dusoulier), p15, J�r�me Dutel

Cosmopolis#32

Vance: A Modern Classic, p8, Paul Rhoads

 

A Syncretic Phylology of the Vancian Locale, p16, Paul Rhoads

 

Vance and �Tolerance� (The Green Pearl, Emphyrio, Trullion), p9, Paul Rhoads

 
Vance: a Modern Classic, p8 , Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#33

Vance versus Vance (Vance Revisions: Guyal of Sfere, Noise), p4, Paul Rhoads

 

Purple Magic: the Realm of Incarnate Symbols, p7, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#34

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Board Reviewer (Ridolph, Hetzel, W. Wood), p2, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#36

A Note on The Houses of Iszm, p5, Rob Friefeld

Cosmopolis#38

Vance on Vance (introductions), p1, Richard Chandler

 

The Unspeakable McInch (quotation), p5, Paul Rhoads

 

Alain Finkielkraut and Cadwal, p15, Paul Rhoads

 

A Comment on Thomas Sowell�s Concept of Cosmic Justice, p15, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#39

The Man from Zodiac (Good government for barbarians), p8, Paul Rhoads

 

Science and the Science Fiction of Vance (Clarges, Killing M, Narrow L), p15, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#40

The European Scene (Tschai, Emphyrio, Anome, Face), p14, Paul Rhoads

 

Where Have All the Radios Gone? p21, Ian Jackson

 Cosmopolis#41

Is Jack Vance Anti-Christian? (Voltarian Theism, Jesus a Fraud? Evil Atheists-Naughty
   anti-Christians, Church authority v. individual Conscience, A Christian Writer?
   Vancian Religions, Materialist Spirituality, Neo-Paganism), p15, Paul Rhoads

  Jack's Punch Line, p7, Patrick Dusoulier

 Cosmopolis#42

A Post-Modernist International Bestseller (Life of Pi, South Park), p18, Paul Rhoads

 

Reflections on Clarges and Vancian Psychotherapy, p20, Paul Rhoads

 

The Normal Man and the Exotic Woman (Komeitk Lelianr, Tatzel, Ylin Ylan, Zap 210),
   p23, Paul Rhoads

 

Thoughts on Throy, p25, Paul Rhoads

 

Vance, Religion, Sex, and the Emasculation of Parapsyche, p34, Steve Sherman

  Jack�s Name-Recycling, p38, Patrick Dusoulier

Cosmopolis#43

Jack in the Cage (Cage theme), p2, Patrick Dusoulier

 

Remarks on Steve Sherman's Remarks (Religion, Sex), p9, Paul Rhoads

 

Editorial Notes (Malice theme: Nopalgarth, Cugel), p22, Paul Rhoads

 

The Roots of Variety in Vancian Characters and Societies, p23, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#44

The Vancian Cage (Spiritual cages), p16, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#45

Brief Notice: Lurulu, p6, Paul Rhoads

 

South Park Revisited, p8, Paul Rhoads

 

The Truth About the Mind (Ports of Call, Plato, Oedipus, Adam and Eve), p10, Paul Rhoads

 

Empire, Colonization, Globalization and the Gaean Reach, p12, Paul Rhoads

 

Art Is Fantasy (Ports of Call, Fragonard, Michelangelo, Titian, Churchill), p13, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#46

Kelly�s Job (WMD-BBC scandal, Dodkin�s Job), p10, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#47

The Blue World, p15, Steve Sherman

Cosmopolis#48

Sinister Old Men in Institute Black Versus Breakness Dominies, p10, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#49

Myth, and a Vancian Anatomy of the New Culture (Tolkein, Heidegger, Vance villains),
   p7, Paul Rhoads

 

Don't Look Now! Jack Vance's Dire Beasts and Ghastly Fiends, p19, David B. Williams

Cosmopolis#50

Visual Jazz (Art and Literature as Music), p9, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#51

Dire Beasts and Sunsets (G.B. Shaw), p5, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#52

The Artist as Engineer, and Other Considerations (Man in Cage, Taverns,
   T�sais-Malanthe syndrome, Arab nationalism), p6, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#53

Jack Vance as Artist, p4, David Reitsema

 

The Development of Vancian Cosmological Sociology (Houses of Iszm, Dogtown),
   p9, Paul Rhoads

 

Very Topical Thoughts on Durdane (Asutra as Interpretive tool of Bush-hate),
   p10, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#55

A Reaction to Dave Reitsema�s �Jack Vance as Artist� (Eros, Goya, Matt Hughes,
   Star King), p15, Paul Rhoads

 

Several Ways of Looking at Jack Vance, p19, Matthew Paris

Cosmopolis#56

Reactions to Reaction to �Jack Vance as Artist�, p3, Paul Rhoads

 

More BBS BS (Casmir, Woudiver, homophobia), p6, Paul Rhoads, D. B. Williams, P. Dusoulier

Cosmopolis#57

How to Praise Lurulu, p8, Paul Rhoads

 

Letter (VIE titles), p 26, David B. Williams

Cosmopolis#58

Rlaru, Lurulu, and the Grand Tournament at Mornune, p9, Paul Rhoads

 

More Thoughts on VIE Titles (Reaction to David B. Williams), p16, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#01

Title Mania Redux (Reaction to David B. Williams in Csmpls#59), p3, Paul Rhoads

Cosmopolis#59

The European Union and the Vancian Imperiums, p7, Paul Rhoads

 

Letter (VIE titles, influence of C.A. Smith), p21, David B. Williams

EXTANT#02 

The Vancian Theologico-Political Attitude (greatest generation, skeptism, Heidegger,
   purple magic, teleology of shopping), p3, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#03

Notes on the American Literary Tradition (R.H. Dana, H. Melville), p1, Paul Rhoads

 

Persona, Culture, And The Flight Of The Winged Being (Phalid�s Fate, Solzhenitsyn),
   p2, Paul Rhoads

 

Can Pnume Swim? p17, Michael Parsons

EXTANT#05

The Plot of Blue World (Cadwal, Domains of Koryphon) , p3, by Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#06

Between Heaven And Earth (Authorial Stance, Alfred�s Ark, Lyonesse), p1, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#07

Vance�s Writings And The Saga Of Religious Belief (Religous impact of Adam Reith),
    p8, Michael Parsons

 

Style And The Spenglerian Atmosphere, p12, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#08

Reaction to: Saga Of Religious Belief, p10, Paul Rhoads

  Cadwal And The New Menace Of Ecological-hegemony, p4, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#09

The Pulpish Plot (E.C. Tubb, Demon Princes, Men Return, Cugel), p3, Paul Rhoads

 

Letter: Tissue Engineering Book (Clarges), p22, Richard Chandler

EXTANT#10

Vancian Perspectives (Marbourough, Dotzauer, the cello), p4, Paul Rhoads

 

Tolerance, A Vancian Perspective, p12, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#11

Between Infinity And The Eliatic Illusion (Metaphysical atmospheres, Aristotle versus Plato,
   situation of infinity, paradox of the pet animal), p3, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#12

A Thousand Words About Pictures (Jacques-Emile Blanche), p1, Paul Rhoads

 

My Uncle�s Library, p3, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#13

Democratic Art (Last Castle, Leo Strauss, class), p3, Paul Rhoads

EXTANT#14 The Gaean Reach Setting, p 3, Paul Rhoads, Tim Stretton, Chuck King
  A Vance Treasury, p 5, Paul Rhoads
  The Domains of Koryphon, Perceiving Vance, Aesthetically and Ideologically,
   p 8, Paul Rhoads
EXTANT#15 The Symbolism of Color: From Spengler to Vance, p11, Paul Rhoads
  Vance's Work: An Overview (Wikipedia), p25, Paul Rhoads
EXTANT#16 The Vancian delights of Herodotus, p1, Paul Rhoads
  Beginnings and endings: from Big Planet to Lurulu,p16, David B. Williams
  Some theorerical aspects of the Domains of Koryphon, p18, Paul Rhoads
EXTANT#17 Thinking About Vance, p1, by Paul Rhoads
  The mystery novels, The Domains of Koryphon and the the SVU
   (Vance's marxian stratum), p1, Paul Rhoads