Series
Dying Earth
Jack Vance, Jeff VanderMeer, Dan Simmons, Lucius Shepard & Michael Shea · 3 novels · 5 novellas · 14 novelettes · 3 short stories · 2 collections · 1950–2010
Dying Earth is a speculative fiction series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have been called picaresque. The series includes short story collections, fix-ups, and novels.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
- Omnibus editions(2 editions)
Map
Dying Earth at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1950s7
- 1960s7
- 1970s4
- 1980s5
- 1990s0
- 2000s3
- 2010s1
Shape
3 novels · 5 novellas · 14 novelettes · 3 short stories · 2 collections
5 authors
reads like:fantasywizardssecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedwhimsicaladult
Mood
Bright and intense: 88% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book25 of 27 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mazirian the Magiciandarkest
- The Mountains of Magnatzbrightest
- Cilcalmest
- The Seventeen Virginsmost intense