Terry Dowling (Author)
Read By Mark Ashby

Now in the twilight of a career spanning back to the 1940s, Vance is a legend among his colleagues, many of whom look to the Grandmaster's works for invaluable tips on literary style and character development. Here, editors Dowling and Strahan offer the commendable results of poring through Vance's prodigious oeuvre and selecting stories to showcase his best work and feature some of his most cherished recurring protagonists. "The Overworld" and "The Sorcerer Pharesm," for instance, star bumbling rogue Cugel the Clever, a stalwart of Vance's many Dying Earth tales set on a far-future Earth bereft of science and seduced by magic. Vance's prowess with hard sf is on display with "Sail 25," about a fleet of starships driven by sun-sails, and his mastery of fantasy comes through in "The Miracle Workers," a nontraditional swords-and-sorcery yarn. With an introduction by George Martin and insightful afterwords to each piece by Vance himself, this is a celebration for his fans, an ideal introduction for new readers of his work.

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