Songs Of The Dying Earth (Editor, with Gardner Dozois)

George R. R. Martin

ISBN 10: 0007277482 / ISBN 13: 9780007277483

Published by HarperVoyager 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing, 2009

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HarperVoyager 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing Bruised at top and base of spine and lower front corner and a couple of page corners creased else Fine book in Dust Jacket with a short (ca 5mm) scrape at the top of the rear panel adjacent to the spine Signed and Personalised by G. R. R. M. on the Title Page Appreciation by Dean Koontz; Preface by Jack Vance; 22 Stories by Robert Silverberg; Matthew Hughes; Terry Dowling; Luiz Williams; Mike Resnick; Walter Jon Williams; Paula Volsky; Jeff Vandermeer; Kage Baker; Phyllis Eisenstein; Elizabeth Moon; Lucius Shepard; Tad Williams; John C. Wright; Glen Cook; Elizabeth Hand; Tanith Lee; George Martin, Neil Gaiman and more.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Songs Of The Dying Earth (Editor, with Gardner Dozois)
• Publisher: HarperVoyager 2009 First Edition in the UK First Printing
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007277482
• ISBN 13: 9780007277483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date :2009-10-01 Pages: 672 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Return to the unique and evocative world of The Dying Earth in this tribute anthology featuring the most distinguished fantasists of our day.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 intriguing and darkly beautiful world to other fantasists. to play in as their very own.The list of twenty-two contributors eager to honour Jack Vance by wr...

Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010: Sixty years ago, in The Dying Earth, Jack Vance introduced his own version of the distant future, where the sun has become a red giant, powerful wizards fight over the scraps of ruined civilizations, and a handful of colorful and eccentric characters insist on having a few adventures before oblivion descends. In Songs of the Dying Earth, 22 sci-fi and fantasy writers, from newcomers like Liz Williams and Byron Tetrick to established names like Neil Gaiman and George R.R. Martin, each offer their own snippets of Vance's Dying Earth. In one story, an apprentice architect stumbles into a duel between two powerful mages, for example, while in another a poet-philosopher tries (and fails) to forget the coming apocalypse in a drunken haze. Some stories capture Vance's style and inventiveness, while others recreate his perfect combination of black humor and creeping dread. Songs of the Dying Earth is both a respectful homage to a sci-fi master and a whirlwind tour of a world that readers will want to revisit. --Darryl Campbell