Jack Vance tributes pour in after his death | Books | guardian.co.uk: Learning of his death, the Game of Thrones author – who edited a tribute anthology to Vance in 2009 featuring stories set in Vance's universe by writers including Neil Gaiman and Michael Moorcock – called Vance "one of the grandmasters of our genres, and IMNSHO one of the greatest writers of our times", and said that yesterday was "a sad day for fans of science fiction and fantasy".