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The Dying Earth
- Tales of the Dying Earth, Book 1
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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Summary
The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty - lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home in Vance’s lyrically described fantastic landscapes, like Embelyon, where, “The sky [was] a mesh of vast ripples and cross-ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid-air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues....”
The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: “A dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh—the ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land ... with a sense of lore and ancient recollection.” Welcome.
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- Ewen Harrison
- 08-02-24
Really enjoyed this…
.., and despite what others have said, I thought the performance really fitted the book perfectly.
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- James Tolmie
- 05-06-23
Interesting story but off-putting narration
The story was great and imaginative and lives up to its reputation, however the narration was so weirdly formal it felt like I was listening to a lecture or someone reading bible verses.
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- Reverend Mike
- 24-11-17
Phantasic!
This truly is a classic of the first water. No wonder it inspired the creation of Dungeons and Dragons!
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- Kindle Customer
- 27-06-18
It's different
No part of this is great prose or great literature, but it certainly is an original idea and a unique vision of the future.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-11-13
Ripe with ideas and peculiar characters
Imagine cooking together some Grimm Fairy Stories alongside a Dungeons and Dragons spell book, and then adding a flavour of the Canterbury Tales for good measure. Baste well and roast to perfection. The result is earthy, colourful and very engaging. I really loved it.
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- Hugh S
- 19-12-11
Classic Sci Fi
This is a real gem. The sun is dying and mankind has evolved. There are strange creatures & men have learned magic. My biggest annoyance, and it it not resticted to this series, is that this series is in 4 parts. Parts 1 & 3 are availlable in audible. What about part 2," the eyes of the overworld"? I have purchased this on amazon, so it is availlable. What is the point of making part 3 availlable and not part 2.
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