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.
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) | |
Author | Jack Vance |
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Cover artist | various Gerald Brom, depicted |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Fantasy, Dying Earth subgenre |
Published | 1950–1984 |
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No. of books | 4 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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