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HardCover. Pub Date :2009-10-01 Pages: 672 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day.A dim place. ancient beyond knowledge.The sun is feeble and red.A million cities have fallen to dust.Here live a few thousand souls. dying. as the Earth dies beneath them.Just a few short decades remain to the long history of our world.At the last . science and magic are one. and there is evil on Earth. distilled by time ... Earth is dying.Half a century ago. Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth. and fantasy has never been the same.Now. for the first time. Jack has agreed to open this intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists. to play in as their very own.The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by wr...
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Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010: Sixty years ago, in The Dying Earth, Jack Vance introduced his own version of the distant future, where the sun has become a red giant, powerful wizards fight over the scraps of ruined civilizations, and a handful of colorful and eccentric characters insist on having a few adventures before oblivion descends. In Songs of the Dying Earth, 22 sci-fi and fantasy writers, from newcomers like Liz Williams and Byron Tetrick to established names like Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin, each offer their own snippets of Vance's Dying Earth. In one story, an apprentice architect stumbles into a duel between two powerful mages, for example, while in another a poet-philosopher tries (and fails) to forget the coming apocalypse in a drunken haze. Some stories capture Vance's style and inventiveness, while others recreate his perfect combination of black humor and creeping dread. Songs of the Dying Earth is both a respectful homage to a sci-fi master and a whirlwind tour of a world that readers will want to revisit. --Darryl Campbell
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George R. R. Martin is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his epic A Song of Ice and Fire series.
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