The Dying Earth series by Jack Vance (Books #1-4)
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Overview: The author was born in 1916 and educated at the University of California, first as a mining engineer, then majoring in physics and finally in journalism. During the 1940s and 1950s, he contributed widely to science fiction and fantasy magazines. His first novel, The Dying Earth, was published in 1950 to great acclaim. He won both of science fiction’s most coveted trophies, the Hugo and Nebula awards. He also won an Edgar Award for his mystery novel The Man in the Cage. He lived in Oakland, California in a house he designed.
Genre: Fiction » Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Mazirian the Magician
Jack Vance’s masterpiece Mazirian the Magician (originally published in 1950 as The Dying Earth) has inspired generations of fantasy writers- from Gene Wolfe and Michael Moorcock, to Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin- and has deeply influenced today’s realms of graphic novels, comics, and fantasy role-playing games (in particular, Dungeons & Dragons). The book contains six works of loosely-connected fantasy short fiction including "Turjan of Miir", "Mazirian the Magician", "T’sais", "Liane the Wayfarer", "Ulan Dhor", and "Guyal of Sfere". Set in a bizarre, darkly beautiful far future near the very end of Earth’s lifespan, wizards duel with spells of dreadful potency under a waning, almost burnt-out red sun. A must-read for any fan of fantasy.
The stories of the Dying Earth series are set in the distant future, at a point when the sun is almost exhausted and magic has reasserted itself as a dominant force. The various civilizations of Earth have collapsed for the most part into decadence. The Earth is mostly barren and cold, and has become infested with various predatory monsters (possibly created by a magician in a former age).
The Moon has disappeared and the Sun is in danger of burning out at any time. A certain fatalism characterizes many of the inhabitants as a consequence.
2. Cugel the Clever
Iucounu the Laughing Magician dispatches unwilling Cugel on a difficult quest, to deliver a violet glass cusp worn in the overworld by warring demons of the eighteenth aeon. Cugel’s trials and adventures are diverse as he makes his way from Shanglestone Strand back to Almery, and his revenge upon Iucounu.
3. Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
Cynical and crudely charming Cugel again ventures back to Almery, after his spell misfires against nemesis Iucounu the Laughing Magician. He connives out of wage-slavery, in debt to the company refectory, as he dredges for a disassembled demiurge’s scales in a slime pit. He and a co-worker sabotage each other scrubbing disease off huge worms that power ship Galante.
4. Rhialto the Marvellous
In the age of The Dying Earth, our moribund planet’s greatest magicians conspire with and against each other, playing cruel tricks and conniving to steal their rivals’ miraculous treasures. Prominent amongst them is Rhialto the Marvellous, who struggles to bring order – even some justice – to this squabbling gaggle of eccentrics and egotists. His efforts will take him back through time, and outwards to the farthest reaches of space – to the place where the mysterious and powerful IOUN stones wait to be gathered, by those who dare.
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