Cugel's Saga

Name: Cugel's Saga
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.8 (4 reviews)
Author: Jack Vance
ISBN: 9781441814715

Author: Jack Vance

Series: Tales of the Dying Earth #3

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 11 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 04/15/2010

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy

Synopsis

Cugel’s Saga, published 17 years after Eyes of the Overworld, is the second novel that features the scoundrel and trickster, Cugel. Again, Cugel tests wits with Iucounu and acquires rudimentary powers himself.“Cugel the Clever [is] a rogue so venal and unscrupulous that that he makes Harry Flashman look like Dudley Do-Right. How could you not love a guy like that? .... Judging from the number of times that Cugel has come back ... you can’t keep a bad man down.” —George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire“Cugel the Clever [is] a liar and thief in a doomed world of liars and thieves.... Probably the least attractive hero it would be possible to find, struggling through a universe like a Hieronymus Bosch painting, a hero only in that nearly everybody else he encounters in that universe is on the make too, and yet the Cugel stories are howlingly funny.” —Kage Baker, author of Empress of Mars

About Jack Vance

"An American writer of mystery, fantasy, and science fiction, he is famous for his Dying Earth series, as well as for award-winning works such as The Dragon Masters and The Last Castle. In 1984, he won the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement.

Before Fame
He worked as a rigger at the Kaiser Shipyard in Richmond, California. He published his first science fiction novella, Son of the Tree, in 1951. Born August 28, 1916, Died May 26, 2013 (age 96)"

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on April 10, 2024

I think I read this the year it came out and never again. I really must dig the series out because it has stuck with me as rather fine. Cugel especially with his brand of cowardice and amoral innovation has remained a favorite. The world Vance creates is as compelling as the characters in it, and it......more

Goodreads review by Mark on May 05, 2024

It has been an awfully long time since I read this book. Thirty years probably :o However, the fact that I can even attempt a review from memory speaks to how ... memorable ... the book is. I think I read this the year it came out and never again. I really must dig the series out because it has stuck......more

Goodreads review by Vit on March 06, 2021

Some books are written to educate and some books are written to charm… I think there’s no need to tell what kind of a book Cugel's Saga is. Iucounu (known across Almery as 'the Laughing Magician') had worked one of his most mordant jokes upon Cugel. For the second time Cugel had been snatched up, car......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on January 14, 2019

Jack Vance is one hell of a storyteller. I may have gotten off on a slightly wrong foot with the first Tales of the Dying Earth, but once I fell into the groove in the second novel, it and the third are a pure delight. Why? Because it's nonstop trickery, confidence games, theft, and conscience-less kn......more

Goodreads review by Kat on August 27, 2014

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. Cugel “the clever” is one of the scummiest, nastiest, lowliest rogues in all of fantasy literature. He’s got no morals and no respect for women, he’s often a coward, he’s not good looking, nor is he particularly good with a sword. In the words of one of Cugel’......more