Jack Vance (1916-2013) is credited for helping define the genre of science fiction during its early golden age and was the recipient of virtually every award in the field.
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-m...[SEE MORE]