Publisher:Vance Integral Edition

Organization set up, on a cooperative model something like an "Open Source" project, to publish a definitive edition of the works of Jack Vance. This was done, with a set of 44 books being published, some in 2002 and the rest in 2005.

The VIE (as it is often called) was created with the cooperation of Jack Vance and his wife, who had been the initial typist for many of his works. It compared available published versions and manuscripts, to determine what its members considered a "preferred text". In many cases, this involved creating a version more or less different from any previously published version. Also, in many cases the author's original or preferred title of a work was restored. in a few cases, a new preferred title was devised.

The VIE books were sold only in sets, and a single ISBN was apparently assigned to the entire set of 44 volumes.

External links

• main web site
• Foreverness Archive of VIE documents