![]() ![]() Liane The Wayfarer is the best character. I wasn't immediately aware that this book was supposed to be be funny. It establishes an atmosphere for the series nicely and there's some beautiful scenery but I'll never understand why some people like this book best from the series or even from Vance's entire oeuvre. The Dying Earth is made of loosely connected stories (this was a minor controversy when it came to awards categorization) following different characters who sometimes appear in each other's stories. Note that the first 3 novels have different titles in Vance's preferred Spatterlight editions. This series is far more fantasy than science fiction. I had a Gollancz edition but some of the first printing had the text sinking towards the spine and made it difficult to read, so I bought the Orb edition, which has a spaceship which really poorly sells the contents, there are flying ships and space travel but no spaceships like this, a completely different aesthetic. ![]()
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