The Dying Earth Series

Journey to a world on the very brink of its end, where magic and science intertwine and the sun is dying in the sky. This saga follows the fates of adventurers, sorcerers, and strange beings in a decadent yet still alluring civilization. Each story is a voyage into the depths of fantasy, filled with peril, humor, and philosophical reflections on the end of all things.

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Die sterbende Erde.
Jack Vance
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Sie leben auf der sterbenden Erde, in unendlich ferner Zukunft, unter einer beinahe ausgebrannten Sonne, die ständig flackernd am Himmel steht: Turjan von Miir, der Wissenschaftler, der immer wieder versucht, Leben zu erschaffen, Mazirian der Zauberer, die schöne T’sais von Embelyon, die zur Erde reist, um ihre Sehenswürdigkeiten zu schauen, ehe sich die Nacht herabsenkt, Lian der Wegelagerer, Ulan Dhor und Guyal von Sfere, ein Mann von unstillbarem Wissensdrang auf der Suche nach dem Museum der Menschheit, in dessen Ruinen das gesamte Wissen des Universums schlummert. Dies sind ihre Geschichten …
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Die Augen der Überwelt
Jack Vance
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Cugel der Schlaue
Jack Vance
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Cugels Irrfahrten. Dying Earth 1
Jack Vance
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„Cugels Irrfahrten“ erzählt von Cugel, einem cleveren Herumtreiber in einer magischen Welt am Ende der Zeit. Der Band vereint die Geschichten „Der Lachende Magier“ und „Cugel der Schlaue“ aus Jack Vances legendärem Zyklus „The Dying Earth“. Cugel gilt als Vorbild für viele Charaktere in der Fantasyliteratur.
Songs Of Dying Earth
George R. R. Martin
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Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth, edited by best- selling author George R. R. Martin, in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day. Here are twenty-two brand-new adventures set in the world of Jack Vance's greatest novel.
A Quest for Simbilis
Michael Shea
186 pages
7 hours of reading
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Cugel the Clever, his mind bent on revenge against Iouconnou, throws in with Mumber Sull, a deposed ruler seeking the legendary wizard Simbilis for help against the minions of Slaye. Cugel and Mumber go up against cannibals, a crooked bridge keeper, and have a short stint as exorcists.
Songs of the Dying Earth
George R. R. Martin
816 pages
29 hours of reading
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An anthology prepared in tribute to the career of Jack Vance features original tales inspired by "The Dying Earth" and includes contributions by such genre masters as Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, and Robert Silverberg.
Tales of the Dying Earth
Jack Vance
752 pages
27 hours of reading
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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 ...