BAD RONALD
by Jack Vance

$17.99

SH-004
ISBN - 979-8-9882898-3-8

PRODUCT DETAILS

• 4.25 x 6.875" - Mass Market Paperback
• 244 pages + cover
• Introduction by Will Errickson
• Cover by Stephen Andrade

ABOUT BAD RONALD

After 17-year-old Ronald commits a terrible act, his mother hides him away in a secret room inside their house until she can scrape together enough money to start their lives over again somewhere else.

But when she unexpectedly passes away and the house is sold to a young family with three teenage daughters, Ronald soon becomes a most unwelcome houseguest.

This work is presented as it was originally created and may contain outdated and offensive cultural depictions.

ABOUT JACK VANCE

Jack Vance was born in 1916 to a well-off California family that, as his childhood ended, fell upon hard times. As a young man he worked at a series of unsatisfying jobs before studying mining engineering, physics, journalism and English at the University of California Berkeley. Leaving school as America was going to war, he found a place as an ordinary seaman in the merchant marine. Later he worked as a rigger, surveyor, ceramicist, and carpenter before his steady production of sci-fi, mystery novels, and short stories established him as a full-time writer.

His works crossed genre boundaries, from dark fantasies (including the highly influential Dying Earth cycle of novels) to interstellar space operas, from heroic fantasy (the Lyonesse trilogy) to murder mysteries featuring a sheriff (the Joe Bain novels) in a rural California county.

His output over more than sixty years was prodigious and won him three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, a World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, as well as an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named him a grand-master and he was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame.