Songs of the dying earth stories in honor of Jack Vance
(2009)
Fiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/SF/SONGS/SC
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, [2009]
℗2009
℗2009
DESCRIPTION
24 audio discs (29 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9781441807007, 1441807004, 9781441807007
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from container
This anthology has assembled one of the most distinguished casts of authors ever to write stories in honor of the genius of Jack Vance. These stories use the bizarre and darkly beautiful far future setting of the Dying Earth, where adventurers and cutpurses strive to hoodwink and out-trick each other in haunted forests full of demons and monsters strange almost beyond comprehension
Unabridged
Compact discs
Duration: 29:15:00
Director: John Baker
Performed by Arthur Morey
CONTENTS
Thank you, Mr. Vance /
Dean Koontz -- Preface /
Jack Vance -- True vintage of Erzuine Thale /
Robert Silverberg -- Grolion of Almery /
Matthew Hughes -- Copsy Door /
Terry Dowling -- Caulk the witch-chaser /
Liz Williams -- Inescapable /
Mike Resnick -- Abrizonde /
Walter Jon Williams -- Traditions of Karzh /
Paula Volsky -- Final quest of the Wizard Sarnod /
Jeff Vandermeer -- Green bird /
Kage Baker -- Last golden thread /
Phyllis Eisenstein -- An Incident at Uskvesk /
Elizabeth Moon -- Sylgarmo's Proclamation /
Lucius Shepard -- Lamentably comical tragedy (or the laughably tragic comedy) of Lixal Laqavee /
Tad Williams -- Guyal the Curator /
John C. Wright -- Good magician /
Glenn Cook -- Return of the Fire Witch /
Elizabeth Hand -- Collegeum of Mauge /
Byron Tetrick -- Evillo the Uncunning /
Tanith Lee -- Guiding nose of Ulfänt Bander-oz /
Dan Simmons -- Frogskin cap /
Howard Waldrop -- A Night at Tarn House /
George R.R. Martin -- An Invocation of incuriosity /
Neil Gaiman