Songs of the Dying Earth

Martin, George R.R.; Dozois, Gardner

ISBN 10: 0007277490 / ISBN 13: 9780007277490

Published by HarperVoyager, 2011

About this Item

2011 HarperVoyager first edition thus paperback; as new condition, just light storage wear; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Songs of the Dying Earth
• Publisher: HarperVoyager
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0007277490
• ISBN 13: 9780007277490
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus.
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

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 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 writing for this anthology includes Neil Gaiman, Tad Williams, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Dan Simmons, Robert Silverberg, and George R.R. Martin himself.

George R.R. Martin's book 'Fire and Blood' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2022-10-24.

About the Authors

George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as screenplays for television and feature films. Dubbed ‘the American Tolkien’, George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer on HBO’s Emmy Award-winning Game of Thrones, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Gardner Dozois has won fifteen Hugo Awards and twenty-eight Locus Awards as editor on the magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, and for the annual anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction. He has also won two Nebula Awards for his own writing and is the author or editor of over a hundred books.