Dying Earth

Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have been called picaresque. They vary from short story collections to a fix-up (novel created from older short stories), perhaps all the way to novel.

Dying Earth
Dust jacket of the 1999 omnibus edition

The Dying Earth (1950)
The Eyes of the Overworld (1966)
Cugel's Saga (1983)
Rhialto the Marvellous (1984)
AuthorJack Vance
Cover artistvarious
Gerald Brom, depicted
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, Dying Earth subgenre
Published1950–1984
Media typePrint
No. of books4 by Vance (see sequels)

The first book in the series, The Dying Earth, was ranked number 16 of 33 "All Time Best Fantasy Novels" by Locus in 1987, based on a poll of subscribers, although it was marketed as a collection and the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB) calls it a "loosely connected series of stories".

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