To Live Forever

Jack Vance

3.78

822 ratings by Goodreads

ISBN 10: 1504630041 ISBN 13: 9781504630047

Publisher: Skyboat Media and Blackstone Audio, 2015

[Read by Kevin Kenerly]

Waylock had been granted eternal life -- but now he was killing on borrowed time.

Gavin Waylock had waited seven years for the scandal surrounding his former immortal self to be forgotten and had kept his identity concealed so that he could once again join the ranks of those who lived forever. He had been exceedingly careful about hiding his past. Then he met the Jacynth. She was a beautiful nineteen-year-old, and Gavin wanted her. But he recognized that a wisdom far beyond her years marked her as one who knew too much about him to live. As far as she was concerned, death was a mere inconvenience. But once the Jacynth came back, Gavin Waylock's life would be an everlasting hell.

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About the Author:

Jack Vance (1916-2013) published his first story, ''The World Thinker,'' in 1945 and has since written over sixty books. Best known as a science fiction and fantasy writer, Vance has won several awards in those genres, including the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement and a number of Hugo Awards. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Ellery Queen, Peter Held, John Holbrook, John van See, and Alan Wade.

Review:

''The works of Jack Vance have boasted an ardent following...The remarkable high consistency of Vance's poetic writing, coupled with his extraordinary visions of exotic planets, is one of the treasures of speculative fiction.'' --Washington Post Book World, praise for the author

''There is a flavor to [Vance's] work that you can't find elsewhere, an underlying current of good humor and quick-wittedness that makes you reluctant to turn that last page and return to a far less interesting reality.'' --Science Fiction Chronicle, praise for the author

''You can't possibly pass up any book by Jack Vance...He has perfected the trick of creating new worlds so deceptively real that after a while your own home seems imaginary.'' --Jerry Pournelle, Hugo Award-winning author, praise for the author

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