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Overview

Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing; an earth populated with vibrant, interesting people and creatures that are unaware of the fate their planet has in store for them.

Including The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, and Rhialto the Marvellous.

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Overview

Travel into the future: to an earth with a dwindling red sun that meekly fills a dark blue sky; an earth that is on the brink of dying out; an earth where science and magic mean the same thing; an earth populated with vibrant, interesting people and creatures that are unaware of the fate their planet has in store for them.

Including The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, and Rhialto the Marvellous.

Editorial Reviews

Washington Post Book World
The remarkable high consistency of Vance's poetic writing, coupled with his extraordinary visions of exotic plants, is one of the treasures of speculative fiction.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780312874568
  • Publisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
  • Publication date: 12/28/2000
  • Edition description: First Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 752
  • Sales rank: 311,216
  • Series: Dying Earth Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.47 (w) x 8.28 (h) x 1.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Jack Vance is one of the greats of science fiction. He has been writing for more than 60 years, and in 1997 was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America. He is the author of dozens of science fiction and fantasy novels, including the World Fantasy Award winning Lyonnesse series, and the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning The Last Castle. He lives in Oakland, California.

Table of Contents

The Dying Earth

The Eyes of the Overworld

Cugel's Saga

Rhialto the Marvellous

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 30, 2001

    Vance's Saga

    Jack Vance is simply the best writer of fantasy and space opera alive today. All of his books are gems, especially 'The Eyes of the Overworld,' and his language is utterly intoxicating. No one else even comes close to the scope of his imagination and language.

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted March 13, 2010

    If you like short stories, this is for you

    This book is like a series of short stories, all related in the fact that they take place in an extreme far future when the Earth's sun has turned red, mankind is waiting for the end to come, and magic and sorcery has become common place. It seems the Earth has spawned quite a few different races and demonkind during the ages, and our multiple main characters interact with many of these, usually to their deserved or undeserved demise. The main characters of the multiple stories are not always virtuous, and some are more likable than others. In one short story time travel is even magically induced and leaves one wondering if the end is so near, why not move into the past a few eons? All in all the stories are entertaining and imaginative with the use of many big words you may need to break out the dictionary for...

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  • Posted September 21, 2009

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    JACK VANCE

    I learned about Jack Vance via REH Forum. Mr. Vance was highly recommended with praise and adulation!

    I was pleasantly surprised as I didn't know his writing would be this good! I couldn't put the book down until I finished the first story as it was that good.

    Highly recommended this book to all. It's better than Harry Potter!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 9, 2005

    The antidote

    to humourless fantasy;

    to plot at the expense of characterisation;

    to novels weighed down with leaden prose;

    to novels with One Big Idea and no other inspiration;

    to self-conscious attempts at writing 'alien' manners.

    Vance is one of the great witty stylists of the 20th Century - genre-independent. You cannot count yourself well-read if you haven't read him.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2001

    Great to see this back in print!

    I was just about to pay $10 for the first volume alone from used collectors sources. This is a great book, of the rare genre of science fiction so far into the future that the sun is a red giant in the sky. It's very profound and also enjoyable to read. Also, if you play D&D, the magick system for characters is derived from this author's stories.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 15, 2000

    Best of the Best

    Vance is perhaps the last of the Golden Age fantasy writers. His intelligence, style, and wit all make him a classic, and the Dying Earth stories are the best work he's done (together with the first two Lyonesse books).

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