The Dying Earth
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3.7
Jack Vance
New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris.Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it.All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.
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Author
Jack Vance
Pages
90
Publisher
Orion
Published Date
2011-11-14
ISBN
0575109483 9780575109483
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"Imaginative, but hard to read and get into at first. Nowhere had I read that these stories do not necessarily make a novel. Once I realized they ate more loosely connected tales I liked it much better. Sort of like the old Doctor Who episodes without the time travel. Just weird species and spells and swordplay. Good luck finding a copy."