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Songs of the Dying Earth: Short Stories in Honor of Jack Vance
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Songs of the Dying Earth: Short Stories in Honor of Jack Vance Paperback - 2011

by George R. Martin (Editor); Gardner Dozois (Editor)

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This stellar anthology features 22 original stories set in the far future of Grand Master Jack Vance's 1950 classic "The Dying Earth," wherein sorcerers, rogues and demons squabble for power beneath the waning light of a bloated red sun.--"Publishers Weekly."

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Details

  • Title Songs of the Dying Earth: Short Stories in Honor of Jack Vance
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Tor Books, U.S.A.
  • Date 2011-12-20
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 581QRT000KRG_ns
  • ISBN 9780765331090 / 0765331098
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.7 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Science fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

George R.R. Martin is the author of the acclaimed, internationally bestselling fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, adapted into the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. He is also the editor and contributor to the Wild Cards series, including the novels Suicide Kings and Fort Freak, among other bestsellers. He has won multiple science fiction and fantasy awards, including four Hugos, two Nebulas, six Locus Awards, the Bram Stoker, the World Fantasy Award, the Daedelus, the Balrog, and the Daikon (the Japanese Hugo). Martin has been writing ever since he was a child, when he sold monster stories to neighborhood children for pennies, and then in high school he wrote fiction for comic fanzines. His first professional sale was to Galaxy magazine, when he was 21. He has been a full-time writer since 1979. Martin has bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Gardner Dozois (1947-2018), one of the most acclaimed editors in science-fiction, has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor 15 times. He was the editor of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine for 20 years. He is the editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and co-editor of the Warrior anthologies, Songs of the Dying Earth, and many others. As a writer, Dozois twice won the Nebula Award for best short story. He was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2011 and has received the Skylark Award for Lifetime Achievement. He lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.