The Dying Earth
5 hrs. 56 min.
One of the first works written during Jack Vance’s long and kaleidoscopically varied creative career.
Unlike later books in the cycle, written much later and brimming with action and a riot of plot colors, “The Dying Earth” is more like a set of romantic sketches—stories that with equal success could have come from a science-fiction writer’s pen or from a bard’s lute.
Interestingly, in this work written back in 1950, Vance predicted several “mainstream” principles of the future: cloning from stem cells, which he called “primaries,” and the idea of magic spell slots from AD&D, which appeared much later.
Unlike later books in the cycle, written much later and brimming with action and a riot of plot colors, “The Dying Earth” is more like a set of romantic sketches—stories that with equal success could have come from a science-fiction writer’s pen or from a bard’s lute.
Interestingly, in this work written back in 1950, Vance predicted several “mainstream” principles of the future: cloning from stem cells, which he called “primaries,” and the idea of magic spell slots from AD&D, which appeared much later.
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The Dying Earth
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The Dying Earth
(narrated by
Kirill Golovin)
2.
Eyes of the Overworld
(narrated by
Gadgeteer2)
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Tales of the Dying Earth: Cugel and Rhialto the Marvellous
(narrated by
Alexander Dunin)
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Cugel's Saga
(narrated by
Gadgeteer2)
4.
Rhialto the Marvellous
(narrated by
Gadgeteer2)
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