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Tales Of The Dying Earth

Jack Vance

The fourth in the Fantasy Masterworks series, the Dying Earth saga inspired writers like Michael Moorcock and Gene Wolfe, who freely acknowledges his debt to Vance in his own Book of the New Sun.

Here, in one volume, is Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga comprising The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rhialto the Marvellous. Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science is one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live ...

  • Classification : SFF (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Gollancz
  • Page Extent : 752
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781857989946
  • Price : INR 1,699
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Jack Vance

Jack Vance was born in 1916 and studied mining engineering and journalism at the University of California. During the Second World War he served in the merchant navy and was torpedoed twice. He started contributing stories to the pulp magazines in the mid 1940s and published his first book, THE DYING EARTH, in 1950. Among his many books are THE DRAGON MASTER, for which he won his first HUGO, BIG PLANET, THE ANOME, and the Lyonesse sequence.

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