Tales of the Dying Earth
by Jack Vance · first published 2000
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Jack Vance's 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series: "The Dying Earth" "The Eyes of the Overworld" "Cugel's Saga" "Rialto the Marvellous"
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See also Jack Vance's wonderful story collection Tales of the Dying Earth, which also includes magic/science and daemon dimensions.
on “Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]” ↗BTW, if you enjoy Tales of the Dying Earth, I recently read Cage of Souls, which is drawn in the same vein: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DPRW17S
on “AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others” ↗The three classic works of fantasy you mention don’t have the twist (as in Vance’s Tales of the Dying Earth) where the seemingly fantastical world turns out to be a far-future version of our own world. Or, in Delaney’s Neverÿon series, a distant-past version. So, there was room for new developments in fantasy…
on “The Earthsea Trilogy (2003)” ↗