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dustydigger
Posted 2022-02-24 2:22 PM (#23859 - in reply to #23638)
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Location: UK		Wow,Jack Vance's Dying Earth was a fascinating read.Published in 1950 it predates Lord of the Rings by 4 years,and is a very different kind of fantasy to LOTR. It is a series of 5 interlocking stories set far far into the future where the ancient sun is dull red in a violet sky,ruins of cities untold millennia old are scattered over empty wastelands,and humans are decreasing over the world. Technology is forgotten or classed as magic,and for the most part people are mostly cruel,selfish and brutal.I was put in mind of an old illuminated manuscript,it certainly felt mediaeval.
They say good writers borrow from other works,while geniuses steal outright,then transform the theft into something marvellous. Well for sure Gene Wolfe freely admitted that he took over the idea of a dying earth and produced the wonderful Book of the New Sun.
Good stuff.

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