

The Dying Earth
Author: Jack Vance
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/15/2010
Author: Jack Vance
Narrator: Arthur Morey
Unabridged: 6 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 02/15/2010
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.
I did not like this book much the first time I read it, but after reading it a second time while visualizing its characters as puppets, I found I liked it much more. This book—particularly the first three stories—irritated me. I found its wizards to be contemptible creatures, morally inferior product......more
Strange to think that this was the series that inspired Martin and Wolfe in their fantasy endeavors. Going from their gritty, mirthless rehashes of standard fantasy badassery to Vance's wild, ironic, flowery style was jarring--going directly from Anderson's grim, tragic Broken Sword to this was tona......more
To read The Dying Earth by Jack Vance is like to find oneself inside the fabulous canvas painted by some artist exiled to the end of the fatigued time… Or in the garden of paranoia… Deep in thought, Mazirian the Magician walked his garden. Trees fruited with many intoxications overhung his path, and......more
1950, a time of transition from swashbuckling square-jawed heroes with huge brains and spaceships falling headlong into a deep future world where everyone is surrounded by death, old tech indistinguishable from magic, and to make things worse, the sun is dying. This is the last hurrah of Earth and i......more
4.0 Stars This is an interesting sci fantasy novel that blends the two genres together in a delightful way. Given the premise, I couldn't help but compare this series to the Book of the New Sun. The one likely took inspiration from the other but each is also very much its own. The Dying Earth was a sh......more