Dying of the Light

George R. R. Martin

ISBN 10: 0671698613 / ISBN 13: 9780671698614

Published by Baen, New York, 1990

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NY, Baen, 1990 Reprint 314 Page Mass Market Paperback.Cover art by Tom Kidd A fine unread copy. See Photos bx 4-6.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dying of the Light
• Publisher: Baen, New York
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671698613
• ISBN 13: 9780671698614
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Illustrator: Cover art by Tom Kidd
• Edition: Rerpint.
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION / Fantasy / General

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Synopsis

Dirk t'Larien journeys to the planet Worlorn, site of the great Festival of Worlds, and, in the desolate twilight descending on the once bright planet, struggles to save his former lover, Gwen, from an alien nobleman

From the Inside Flap

For countless millennia, the planet Worlorn has been creation's castaway, a cold, barren world drifting aimlessly through the darkness between the stars. When it wanders near the constellation called The Wheel of Fire, Worlorn experiences a brief, bright period of light and life and becomes the setting for an extravagant, multi-cultural celebration: the Festival of the Fringe. A few short years later, when the planet has moved on and the festival has ended, the light begins to die once again.Into this realm of eternal twilight comes Dirk t'Larien, a rootless interstellar traveler. Dirk has come to Worlorn in response to a summons from Gwen Delvano, the woman who deserted him years before, the woman he has never stopped loving. Desperate to reconnect with Gwen, his mistress of abandoned dreams, he finds himself enmeshed in the unforeseen complexities of a world marked by alien sexual and domestic arrangements, unbridgeable cultural barriers, and rigid codes of conduct that can have lethal consequences. It is a world in which words carry extraordinary weight and names have the power to shape and destroy a life.First published in 1977, Dying of the Light was George R.R. Martin's first novel, and it immediately announced the presence of an extraordinary storyteller. More than thirty years later, it continues to stand as a singular accomplishment: an intimate epic in which the pleasures of grand-scale world building and the subtleties of human relationships stand seamlessly side-by-side.