by Jack Vance
This is a book that should be read aloud, even if only to yourself. It has this elegant, primeval, oral-tradition quality that just doesn't resonate as well when it's only bouncing around inside your head. For example: The light came from an unknown source, from the air itself, as if leaking from th...
Nutshell: assorted losers use the always already imminent destruction of the Earth as an excuse for grave breaches of sense & decency; sadly, the destruction of this Earth is not presented herein.Though the volume designates a metonym by which the setting stands for a particular subgenre, the setti...
Found this for a dollar!
Earth is on its last leg. The sun is a red giant, the moon has vanished, and magic has returned.This omnibus includes the following four books:The Dying Earth: The Dying Earth is a collection of linked short stories. And here they are:Turjan of Miir: Turjan, a wizard, seeks the help of Pandelume...
Three stories from the first book (The Dying Earth) were good, I've thought so from the time I first read it, but the rest of the book was just terribly disappointing. What a waste of money. :(
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