![]() ![]() After Michael Shea wrote and published an authorised sequel in 1974, A Quest for Simbilis, Vance returned to his setting and lead character in 1983 with Cugel’s Saga. ![]() The second volume, 1966’s Eyes of the Overworld, ties together a half-dozen short stories (of which five had been previously published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction) into a sprawling picaresque adventure. The first book in the sequence, The Dying Earth, was a collection of linked short stories published together as a novel in 1950. I thought I’d do my humble bit to mark his passing with a look at perhaps his best-known series, books which named a subgenre of speculative fiction: The Dying Earth. Prolific and talented, Vance was a significant figure. John O’Neill posted a fine overview here of his career testament to Vance’s influence on other writers can be seen in remembrances by Christopher Priest and George R.R. Last Sunday, May 26, veteran genre writer Jack Vance died at the age of 96. ![]()
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