Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Future Tense / Dust of Far Suns | 1964 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 2 | Eight Fantasms and Magics | 1969 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 3 | The Worlds of Jack Vance | 1973 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 4 | The Moon Moth | 1976 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 5 | The Best of Jack Vance | 1976 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 6 | Fantasms and Magics | 1978 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 7 | Green Magic | 1979 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 8 | Nopalgarth | 1980 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 9 | Lost Moons | 1982 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 10 | The Narrow Land | 1982 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 11 | The Demon Princes | 1985 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 12 | Light from a Lone Star | 1985 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 13 | The Augmented Agent | 1986 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 14 | The Dark Side of the Moon | 1986 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 15 | Bird Isle and Take My Face | 1988 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 16 | Chateau d’If and Other Stories | 1990 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 17 | When the Five Moons Rise | 1992 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 18 | The Jack Vance Treasury | 2007 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 19 | The Jack Vance Reader | 2008 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 20 | The Men Return and Others | 2009 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 21 | Wild Thyme, Green Magic | 2009 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 22 | The World-Thinker and Other Stories | 2011 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 23 | The Dragon Masters and Other Stories | 2011 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 24 | The Golden Girl and Other Stories | 2012 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 25 | Sail 25 and Other Stories | 2012 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 26 | Wild Thyme and Violets and Other Unpublished Stories | 2012 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 27 | Desperate Days | 2012 | Jack Vance | Buy |
| 28 | Big Planet / The Blue World / The Dragon Masters and Other Stories | 2013 | Jack Vance | Buy |
Jack Vance’s 28 short story collections span his entire career, from Future Tense (1964) to posthumous compilations published in the 2010s. The collections gather stories from pulp magazines, anthologies, and previously unpublished manuscripts.
Notable collections include The Best of Jack Vance (1976), Green Magic (1979), and the comprehensive later volumes like The Jack Vance Treasury (2007). These collections are essential for understanding Vance’s full range as a writer, as many of his best stories never appeared in his novels.