The trouble with all anthologies is uneven quality. Even in a well-edited selection of stories such as Songs of the Dying Earth, featuring a line-up of triple-A talent, including stories by Neil Gaiman, Dan Simmons, Glen Cook, Tad Williams, and Jeff VanderMeer, the stories can be hit and miss. That the anthology is a tribute Read more…
This collection of four novels by Jack Vance contains all of his writings dealing with his Dying Earth universe. On a far future Earth where the Sun is nearly extinguished, technology has devolved into ancient machines and the rote memorization of spells, which are based on a lost advanced mathematics that allow magicians to warp Read more…
