Book description
In the dim far future of Earth, when the sun had shrunk to a small red
disk in the dark sky and the race of man lived in isolated cities that
echoed with the vastness of the world's history, science, myth and magic
had become one. Sorcerors who read the books of ancient times held great
power, and fearsome monsters created in ages long forgotten stalked the
land. In this world of mystery and danger, the adventurer known as Cugel
the Clever was forced to undertake a quest for Iucounu the Laughing
Magician--a quest that was to take him to lands stranger than any he had
dreamed of, and pit his wits and his sword against powers from beyond
time itself. Jack Vance (1916 - ) 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 Masters, for which
he won his first Hugo Award, Big Planet, The Anome, and the Lyonesse
sequence. He has won the Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Awards, amongst
others, and in 1997 was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction
Writers of America.
