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Editor:	George R. R. Martin
Co-editors:	Gardner Dozois
Title:	Songs Of The Dying Earth
Subtitle:	Stories In Honour Of Jack Vance
Publisher:	Harpervoyager
Country:	UK
Date:	Oct 2009
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction
ISBN-10:	0007277482
ISBN-13:	9780007277483
Rating:	9.0 Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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ppint. 11th Sep 2024		Rated 9/10 not all of the stories manage quite the same combination of fantasy, eccentricity, surrealism, and poetic justice of vance's own dying earth stories; but they all of them evince a blending of at least some of these characteristics: and it's a worthy addition to the dying earth canon - as well as having been a recognition jack vance could and did enjoy in his lifetime. (n.b. merkin editions lose the "u" from the sub-title.) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



ppint. 5th Oct 2020		contents: n.b. each short story, novelette and novella is followed by an afterword by its author: thank you, mr. vance (nf introduction) dean (r.) koontz preface (nf) jack vance the true vintage of erzuine thale (novelette) robert silverberg grolion of almery (ntte) matthew hughes the copsy door (ntte) terry dowling caulk the witch-chaser (short story) liz williams inescapable (ss) mike resnick abrizonde (ntte) walter jon williams the traditions of karzh (ntte) paula volsky the final quest of the wizard sarnod (ntte) jeff vandermeer the green bird (ntte) kage baker the last golden thread (ss) phyllis eisenstein an incident in uskvosk (ss) elizabeth moon sylgarmo's proclamation (ntte) lucius shepard the lamentably comical tragedy (or the laughably tragic comedy) of lixal laqavee (ntte) tad williams guyal the curator (ntte) john c. wright the good magician (ntte) glen cook the return of the fire witch (ntte) elizabeth hand the collegeum of mauge (ss) byron tetrick evillo the cunning (ntte) tanith lee the guiding nose of ulfänt banderōz (novella) dan simmons frogskin cap (ss) howard waldrop a night at the tarn house (ntte) george r. r. martin an invocation of incuriosity (ss) neil gaiman



ppint. 4th Oct 2020		harpercollinspublishers harpervoyager imprint first printing, first uk h/cvr, first uk edition. preceded by the subterranean press h/cvr first edition (burton, michigan u.s. 2009) original anthology of stories set in jack vance's wonderful world of the dying earth, written, composed and created in honour of the fantasy & sf grandmaster, containing seven short stories, fourteen novelettes and one novella, plus notes/afterwords by each of the twenty-two contributing authors, with an introduction by dean r. koontz, and a preface by jack vance. cover (d-j) art by david j. green cover (d-j) price £25.00 668pp. (check) including (i-)viii pages titles, indicia, table-of-contents etc, introduction, bound with endpapers between covered boards #1: ''the dying earth'' jack vance (hillman 1950) (lancer books 1962), q.v. for series listing, and links. there is also a smaller format but elsewise identical (sfaicr) uk h/cvr - the harpervoyager first uk h/cvr is a what-is-now fairly standard for fiction large format uk h/cvr - that i have owned and since sold, which i believe must have been the uk bca/associates book club edition. unfortunately, i did not note down details, such as whether the d-j bore a bca/associates book club edition cat# in addition to any isbn, nor what the isbn was, if it was not (as is now commonly, though incorrectly, the case with sfbc editions) that of the true first uk h/cvr edition given above.

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