The Dying Earth Author:Jack Vance The Death of Science "Now in the last fleeting moments, humanity festers, rich as rotting fruit..." — The moon was an almost-forgotten memory and dull red sun drifted toward the gray horizon like an old man creeping to his deathbed. In these days, when the world was ending, sorcery was the only knowledge still worth pursuing. For magic worked, wh... more »ile science could only fail...
Yet a few men still thought otherwise, and in his laboratories, Turjan of Mir--one of the last of Earth's scientists--labored once again to create something new...