Mazirian the Magician
Mazirian the Magician

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Orb Books

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 131

ISBN-13: 1466821949

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Jack Vance was one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying Earth), and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Dying Earth
The Dying Earth

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-11-14

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0575109483

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New races of man had evolved, new species of beast; science had vanished and magic had arisen to dominate the twilight of our world as it dominated the earth's morning. The Dying Earth is Jack Vance's finest work - a stunning evocation of a world peopled by wizards, witches, demons, monsters, dashing princes and forlorn maidens. A bejewelled gallery of strange and wonderful beings in the eminent tradition of Tolkien and William Morris. Jack Vance's preferred title for this collection is Mazirian the Magician, but while we have elsewhere deferred to his wishes, in this case the book is so famous under a title of which he apparently strongly disapproves that we concluded it would be absurd to change it. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps.

The Demon Princes, Vol. 1
The Demon Princes, Vol. 1

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1997-04-15

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780312853020

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Kirth Gersen, his family and home planet destroyed in the Mount Pleasant Massacre, sets out on a mission of revenge to find and eliminate the five Demon Princes responsible.

Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight
Cugel: The Skybreak Spatterlight

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1466821965

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A charming rogue undertakes an epic journey across a dying planet in the World Fantasy Award–winning author’s classic tale of adventure and revenge. The Earth is now a world older than memory, a place where the lowly inhabitants await the final twilight of the bloated red sun. But Cugel the Clever is nothing if not a survivor. Now, for the second time, Iucounu the Laughing Magician has magicked Cugel across the Ocean of Sighs to the faraway Shanglestone Strand. Beset by thieves and schemers, whose cunning almost equals his own, Cugel must fight the long way back to Iucounu’s manse where he intends to exact a terrible revenge before the old red sun goes out forever. Mixing sardonic humor and high adventure, World Fantasy Award–winning author Jack Vance weaves a picaresque tale of treachery and danger in his classic Tales of the Dying Earth series.

Rhialto the Marvellous
Rhialto the Marvellous

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2011-12-19

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0575109815

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Rhialto the Marvellous 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.

Creation Mage
Creation Mage

Author: Dante King

Publisher:

Published: 2020-08-09

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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The last thing I expected was to gain the spells of the woman in my bed. Hell, I didn't even know magic existed until I'd cast a spell that morning. Then a beautiful teacher from a magical academy told me I could become the universe's most powerful mage.To get there, I need to become stronger. I need to ace all my examinations. And, most of all, I need to master the most potent spells.But I have to start somewhere.This begins my first year at the Mazirian Academy.

The Laughing Magician
The Laughing Magician

Author: Jack Vance

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781887424004

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The Laughing Magician combines two of the most popular novels in Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. Both recount the adventures of Cugel, also called Cugel the Clever, forced by a mordant magician into a quest across an Earth of the far distant future. In this Rabelaisian picaresque, Cugel has only his wits -- and loose morals -- with which to survive a world teeming with tricksters, monsters, and magicians. Vance’s vivid, witty prose and rich imagination is combined with Stephen Fabian’s gorgeous art.