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The Dying Earth (Pocket Science Fantasy) by Vance, Jack is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The stories included in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisdom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home in Vanceâs lyrically described fantastic landscapes like Embelyon where, âThe sky [was] a mesh of vast ripples and cross-ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid-air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues....â The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: âA dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harshâthe ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land ... with a sense of lore and ancient recollection.â Welcome. âThe Dying Earth and its sequels comprise one of the most powerful fantasy/science-fiction concepts

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Author

Vance, Jack

Publisher

Pocket Books

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671441845

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

3.94 / 5 (23 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14