The Dying Earth genre differs from the apocalyptic subgenre in that it deals not with catastrophic destruction, but with entropic exhaustion of Earth. It...
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Dying Earth is a speculative fiction series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published from 1950 to 1984. Some have...
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The Dying Earth is a collection of science fantasy/fantasy short fiction by American writer Jack Vance, published by Hillman in 1950. Vance returned to...
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Nominees". Worlds Without End. Retrieved 2009-07-25. "OLDIES BUT GOODIES | George R.R. Martin". Dying of the Light at Worlds Without End Dying of the Light...
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The Book of the New Sun (category Dying Earth (genre))
English, set in a distant future when the Sun has dimmed and Earth is cooler (a "Dying Earth" story). The four volumes and additional fifth coda are: 1980...
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Viriconium (category Dying Earth (genre))
Viriconium exists in a future Earth littered with the technological detritus of millennia (partly inspired by Jack Vance's Dying Earth series, Mervyn Peake's...
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Till A' the Seas (category Dying Earth (genre))
towards the poles, becoming more and more barbaric. Mankind is steadily dying out because of the lack of water, until there are only a few decades left...
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Books of Swords (category Dying Earth (genre))
series (The Broken Lands (1968), The Black Mountains (1971), and Changeling Earth (1973), also titled Ardneh's World), with the fourth Empire of the East...
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Zothique (collection) (category Dying Earth (genre))
poem and all sixteen tales of the author's Zothique cycle, set on the Earth's last continent in a far distant future, with an introduction, map, and...
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Far future in fiction (section Genre origins)
Another recurring theme is the post-apocalyptic one, related to the Dying Earth genre, or the suppression of humanity by more powerful beings, such as robots...
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