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The Dying Earth
- Tales of the Dying Earth, Book 1
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 6 h et 41 min
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The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom 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 Vance’s lyrically described fantastic landscapes, like Embelyon, where, “The 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....”
The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: “A dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh—the 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.” Welcome.
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- Josh
- 2018-09-25
Awesome look at classic fantasy
It's really exciting to read Jack Vance and see the seeds that inspired games like D&D and modern fantasy in general.
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- Marie-Andrée Tremblay
- 2022-07-21
magique
comme toujours avec Jack Vance une histoire épique écrite avec l'humour sarcastique de l'auteur
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- Ryan Paton
- 2021-02-05
fantastic short stories
slightly dated writing style but very enjoyable short fantastic and strange stories. it was awesome to read some of the historic foundations of dungeons & dragons like the magic style that Jack Vance created. some of the short stories were absolutely absurd but I love them!
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- 2022-10-06
The Bones of Modern Fantasy
Vance’s Dying Earth represents one of the foundational works from which much of modern fantasy takes inspiration. It is an interesting, exciting, and at times grim read of adventurers in a fantastical future earth, rendered unrecognizable by the passage of eons. The stories in this book are classic swashbuckling intensely imaginative Sci-fantasy more reminiscent of pulp titles like Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars series than other foundational epic fantasy titles like The Lord of the Rings.
It is however also hopelessly dated, Readers should understand that when they read this book they are stepping into a seventy year old world view with all the preconceptions and prejudice of the time. Few for example are the female characters who manage to ascend beyond prizes for heroes to win and villains to victimize in this dark, end of time world.
It’s not a long read, and I would recommend the title to any fans of modern fantasy, particularly those who are fans of fantasy and Sci fi in tabletop gaming as you will find the roots of many familiar concepts in the words of this book. Just be aware that your also reading a piece that is very much of its own time.
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