Songs of the Dying Earth

by Martin, George R. R.; Dozois, Gardner

• ISBN13: 9780765331090
• ISBN10: 0765331098
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-20
• Publisher: Tor Books

Summary

This stellar anthology features 22 original stories set in the far future of Grand Master Jack Vance's 1950 classic "The Dying Earth," wherein sorcerers, rogues and demons squabble for power beneath the waning light of a bloated red sun.--"Publishers Weekly."

Author Biography

George R.R. Martin is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted into the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also the editor and contributor to the Wild Cards series, including the novels Suicide Kings and Fort Freak, among other bestsellers. He has won multiple science fiction and fantasy awards, including four Hugos, two Nebulas, six Locus Awards, the Bram Stoker, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (the Japanese Hugo). Martin has been writing ever since he was a child, when he sold monster stories to neighborhood children for pennies, and then in high school he wrote fiction for comic fanzines. His first professional sale was to Galaxy magazine, when he was 21. He has been a full-time writer since 1979. Martin has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 

Gardner Dozois, one of the most acclaimed editors in science fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor fifteen times. He was the editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine for twenty years. He is the editor of the Year’s Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies and many others. As a writer, he twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

"Of the many novels written by SF Grandmaster Vance, his Dying Earth series remains the most popular and most memorable of his oeuvre. Now top SF and fantasy authors…have contributed stories and reminiscences to this mammoth collection of tales set in that unforgettable universe, one in which Earth's sun is a dying red dwarf and in which irascible mages, clever scoundrels, and ordinary folk wait around for their world's inevitable demise…. The twenty-three stories not only capture the unique feel of Vance's dying universe but stand individually as one of the strongest gatherings of writers to pay homage to one of their own. This is highly recommended."
—Library Journal (starred review)