Book description
Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this
tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our
day. Here are twenty-one brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack
Vance's greatest novel.
A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge. The sun is feeble and red. A
million cities have fallen to dust. Here live a few thousand souls,
dying, as the Earth dies beneath them. Just a few short decades remain
to the long history of our world. At the last, science and magic are
one, and there is evil on Earth, distilled by time … Earth is dying.
Half a century ago, Jack Vance created the world of the Dying Earth,
and fantasy has never been the same. Now, for the first time, Jack has
agreed to open this bizarre and darkly beautiful world to other
fantasists, to play in as their very own.
The list of twenty-one contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by
writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith
Lee, Michael Moorcock, Terry Dowling, Lucius Shepherd, Dan Simmons,
Robert Silverberg, Tad Williams, Walter Jon Williams and George R. R.
Martin himself. George R. R. Martin is the author of the bestselling A
Song of Ice and Fire series and award-winning writer of books and screenplays.
Gardner Dozois is a science fiction writer and editor who has won a
record fifteen Hugo Awards for his work. He was the editor of Asimov's
Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004.
