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Search - The Dying Earth (Tales of the Dying Earth 1) (Audio MP3-CD) (Unabridged)

The Dying Earth - Tales of the Dying Earth 1 - Audio MP3-CD - Unabridged
Author: Jack Vance, Arthur Morey (Narrator)

Omnibus of stories and novels. Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Jack Vance's classic Dying Earth saga: Travel to a far distant future, when the sun bleeds red in a dark sky, where magic and science are one, and the Earth has but a few short decades to live . . . — The Dying Earth introduces dozens of seeke... more »rs of wisdom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. Melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. Monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. Fantastic landscapes like Embelyon where, 'The sky was a mesh of vast ripples and cross-ripples and these refracted a thousand shafts of colored light, rays which in mid-air wove wondrous laces, rainbow nets, in all the jewel hues.....

Contents:

The Dying Earth: a collection of linked short stories. The dying Earth itself is otherworldly: 'A dark blue sky, an ancient sun.... Nothing of Earth was raw or harsh-the ground, the trees, the rock ledge protruding from the meadow; all these had been worked upon, smoothed, aged, mellowed. The light from the sun, though dim, was rich and invested every object of the land ... with a sense of lore and ancient recollection'.;
The Eyes of the Overworld--The scoundrel Cugel is sent by a magician he has wronged to a distant unknown country to retrieve magical lenses that reveal the Overworld. Conniving to steal the lenses, he escapes and, goaded by a homesick monster magically attached to his liver, starts to find his way home to Almery. The journey takes him across trackless mountains, wastelands, and seas. Through cunning and dumb luck, the relentless Cugel survives one catastrophe after another, fighting off bandits, ghosts, and ghouls -- stealing, lying, and cheating without insight or remorse, leaving only wreckage behind. Betrayed and betraying, he joins a cult group on a pilgrimage, crosses the Silver Desert as his comrades die one by one and, escaping the Rat People, obtains a spell that returns him home. There, thanks to incompetence and arrogance he misspeaks the words of a purloined spell and transports himself back to the same dismal place he began his journey.;
Cugel's Saga--begins ironically with Cugel again fallen afoul of Iucounu, the Laughing Magician, who has now banished Cugel across the dying earth to exactly the same place he had sent Cugel before and from which Cugel had just returned to seek his revenge. Thus, Cugel begins another long journey back to Almery to get even with Iucounu, and of course it’s another series of hilarious misadventures. These usually involve Cugel entering a village, pretending to be a gentleman and getting involved in some profitable scheme, and eventually having to flee or being run out of town;
Rhialto the Marvellous: a collection of three novellas-- takes up the personal and political conflicts among a conclave of two dozen magicians of Ascolais and Almery in the 21st Aeon. The shocking appearance of the Llorio the Murtha, a powerful female force from an earlier aeon threatens to unbalance nature by "ensqualming" or feminizing the magicians. This triggers a tremendous struggle for power and the other mages turn against Rhialto. Hoping to reestablish his rightful place, Rhialto travels to other aeons to restore the missing Perciplex which projects the Mostrament, the constitution of the association. In his final adventure, Rhialto must, ultimately, travel to the very ends of time and space to confront an old adversary whom he had wronged and must commit further misdeeds to restore order..

1 MP3-cd, 6 hrs 42 mins, unabridged. Arthur Morey, narrator.

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ISBN-13: 9781441814579
ISBN-10: 1441814574
Publication Date: 2/15/2010
Edition: MP3 Una
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Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
Book Type: MP3 CD
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