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English
Etymology
From Vance + -ian.
Adjective
Vancian (comparative more Vancian, superlative most Vancian)
- (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, 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’.
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