In this fascinating world, home to pelgranes, erbs and Deodands, Gauns, gids and Twk-men, we meet Turjan of Miir in his unswerving quest to create artificial life, watch the cruel Mazirian the Magician as he pursues his latest dark obsession, observe the beautiful T’sais as she learns to find beauty in Earth’s final days. Set in a distant future when our sun is about to expire, the six marvellous adventures in this, Vance’s first ever book, originally published in 1950, take us to a world filled with strange lands and ancient wonders, where the moon has long-since left the sky and science has been all but replaced by magic, where hopes and dreams for a golden tomorrow have given way to a decadent grandeur, outrageous schemes and the most desperate and reckless acts of derring-do imaginable.

As well as being a genuine classic of modern epic fantasy, it is also the trademark work of acclaimed F&SF Grandmaster Jack Vance, one of the field’s most distinctive and beloved voices and one of its most influential master storytellers. On any list of all-time favorite fantasy and science fiction masterworks, The Dying Earth always earns a much deserved place. There is evil on Earth, evil distilled by time…Earth is dying and in its twilight…' In place of the old peoples a few thousand souls live. A million cities have lifted towers, have fallen to dust. Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is feeble and red. 'Once it was a tall world of cloudy mountains and bright rivers, and the sun was a white blazing ball. There is a limit of one copy per household on this title. Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Tom Kidd

The dying earth by jack vance