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单词 Vancian
释义

Vancian

English

Alternative forms

  • Vancean

Etymology

From Vance + -ian.

Adjective

Vancian (comparative more Vancian, superlative most Vancian)

  1. (literature) Of or relating to Jack Vance (1916–2013), American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction stories.
    • 2016, Tom Shippey, ““People are Plastic”: Jack Vance and the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism”, in Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, JSTOR j.ctt1gn6c93.17, page 111:
      Vance has, in short, more than any other science fiction writer ‘colonised’ the entirely new imaginative space created by the nineteenth- and twentieth-century science of anthropology, [] Is it merely local colour? To answer that, one has to note, beneath the constant Vancean surface of strange ‘xenography’,8 the recurrent Vancean theme of human ‘plasticity’.

Derived terms

  • Vancian magic
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