16 must-read fiction books like Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance by Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Hand, George R.R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Glen Cook, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons, Mike Resnick, Gardner Dozois, Howard Waldrop, Kage Baker, Tad Williams, Terry Dowling, Elizabeth Moon, Walter Jon Williams, Jack Vance, Paula Volsky, John C. Wright, Lucius Shepard, Liz Williams, Phyllis Eisenstein, Tom Kidd, Matt Hughes, Hillary Pearlman

Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Elizabeth Hand , George R.R. Martin , Robert Silverberg , Neil Gaiman , Tanith Lee , Glen Cook , Dean Koontz , Dan Simmons , Mike Resnick , Gardner Dozois , Howard Waldrop , Kage Baker , Tad Williams , Terry Dowling , Elizabeth Moon , Walter Jon Williams , Jack Vance , Paula Volsky , John C. Wright , Lucius Shepard , Liz Williams , Phyllis Eisenstein , None , Tom Kidd , Matt Hughes , Hillary Pearlman

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Today, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and …

If you liked the fiction plot in Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance by Jeff VanderMeer, Elizabeth Hand, George R.R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Neil Gaiman, Tanith Lee, Glen Cook, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons, Mike Resnick, Gardner Dozois, Howard Waldrop, Kage Baker, Tad Williams, Terry Dowling, Elizabeth Moon, Walter Jon Williams, Jack Vance, Paula Volsky, John C. Wright, Lucius Shepard, Liz Williams, Phyllis Eisenstein, None, Tom Kidd, Matt Hughes, Hillary Pearlman , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Big Planet by Jack Vance

1. Big Planet

By: Jack Vance

3.63

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

The objective of the mission from to stop the ruthless Barjarnum of Beaujolais from expanding his … read more

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  • science fiction
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Cover of El horror de Dunwich by H.P. Lovecraft, Aurelio Martínez Benito

2. El horror de Dunwich

By: H.P. Lovecraft , Aurelio Martínez Benito

3.81

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Deadly forces are about to be awakened! In the degenerate, unpopular backwater of Dunwich, Wilbu… read more

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  • science fiction
  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1) by Jack Vance

3. The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.89

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy… read more

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"It is thus because it has always been thus. Is not this reason enough?"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"T'sais mounted her horse and set out for Earth, seeking love and beauty."

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"To the furthest reach of my memory, Rogol Domedonfors ruled the city. He knew lore of all ages, secrets of fire and light, gravity and countergravity, the knowledge of superphysic numeration, metatha…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

"On the heights above the river Xzan, at the site of certain ancient ruins, Iucounu the Laughing Magician had built a manse to his private taste: an eccentric structure of steep gables, balconies, sky…"

-Jack Vance, The Dying Earth (The Dying Earth, #1)

Cover of The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2) by Jack Vance

4. The Killing Machine (Demon Princes, #2)

By: Jack Vance

3.99

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Having brought arch-villain Malagate the Woe to justice, Gersen now sets his sights on Kokor Hekkus… read more

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Cover of The Green Pearl (Lyonesse #2) by Jack Vance

5. The Green Pearl (Lyonesse #2)

By: Jack Vance

3.00

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The First Book of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber

6. The First Book of Lankhmar

By: Fritz Leiber

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the moment when they first met, in the commission of the same, audacious theft, Fafhrd, the gi… read more

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  • short stories
  • fantasy
  • fiction
Cover of The Book of Dreams (Demon Princes, #5) by Jack Vance

7. The Book of Dreams (Demon Princes, #5)

By: Jack Vance

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Howard Alan Treesong gave a banquet to ten friends. All died in agony, save himself. Howard Alan Tr… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fantasy
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8. Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honour of Jack Vance

By: Jeff VanderMeer , Elizabeth Hand , George R.R. Martin , Robert Silverberg , Neil Gaiman , Tanith Lee , Glen Cook , Dean Koontz , Dan Simmons , Mike Resnick , Gardner Dozois , Howard Waldrop , Kage Baker , Tad Williams , Terry Dowling , Elizabeth Moon , Walter Jon Williams , Jack Vance , Paula Volsky , John C. Wright , Lucius Shepard , Liz Williams , Phyllis Eisenstein , None , Tom Kidd , Matt Hughes , Hillary Pearlman

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Today, in order to honor the magnificent career of Jack Vance, one unparalleled in achievement and … read more

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  • dying earth
  • short story collection
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti

9. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Cover of Cugel saga by Jack Vance, Monique Lebailly

10. Cugel saga

By: Jack Vance , Monique Lebailly

4.16

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Pauvre Cugel : alors qu'il pensait tenir sa revanche sur Iucounu, le magicien rieur, le voila renvo… read more

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  • fantasy
  • dying earth
  • fiction
Cover of A Quest for Simbilis (The Dying Earth, #2.5) by Michael   Shea

11. A Quest for Simbilis (The Dying Earth, #2.5)

By: Michael Shea

3.97

Format: 172 pages,

Cugel the Clever was seeking revenge when he met Mumber Sull who was seeking justice. Revenge and j… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin, Eric Beddows

12. Changing Planes

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Eric Beddows

5.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport,… read more

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13. The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun #2)

By: Gene Wolfe

3.78

Format: 416 pages,

Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic… read more

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14. The Star King (Demon Princes, #1)

By: Jack Vance

4.23

Format: 121 pages,

The first book in the 5 volume Demon Princes saga. The protagonist's parents were murdered by a pos… read more

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15. Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, #1)

By: Ruthanna Emrys

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

After attacking Devil's Reef in 1928, the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and to… read more

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16. Thieves' World (Thieves' World, #1)

By: John Brunner , Joe Haldeman , Marion Zimmer Bradley , Lynn Abbey , Poul Anderson , Robert Lynn Asprin , Andrew J. Offutt , None

3.14

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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17. The Eyes of the Overworld (The Dying Earth, #2)

By: Jack Vance

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Scoundrel Cugel is sent far away, by a magician he has wronged, to retrieve magical lenses that rev… read more

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18. Tales of the Dying Earth

By: Jack Vance

3.77

Format: 352 pages,

Contains all four Dying Earth books in one omnibus volume: 1 * The Dying Earth * [Dying Earth * 1] … read more

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19. Planet of Adventure (Planet of Adventure, #1-4)

By: Jack Vance

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Stranded on the distant planet Tschai, young Adam Reith is the sole survivor of a space mission who… read more

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20. Suldrun's Garden (Lyonesse #1)

By: Jack Vance

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Elder Isles, located in what is now the Bay of Biscay off the the coast of Old Gaul, are made u… read more

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21. Showboat World

By: Jack Vance

3.66

Format: None pages,

Vast, beautiful, untamed, Big Planet lay beyond the frontier of terrestrial law. Its inhabitants we… read more

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22. Rhialto the Marvellous (The Dying Earth, #4)

By: Jack Vance

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Contents: The Murthe (1984) Fader's Waft (1984) Morreion (1973) read more

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23. Lord of Light

By: Roger Zelazny , Sönmez Güven

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

Earth is long since dead. On a colony planet, a band of men has gained control of technology, made … read more

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24. Elric of Melniboné (Elric, #1)

By: Michael Moorcock

3.90

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders i… read more

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25. Night Lamp

By: Jack Vance

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Trade paperback

Found as a child with no memory of his past, adopted by a scholarly couple who raised him as their … read more

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26. Majestrum (Henghis Hapthorn #1)

By: Matthew Hughes

4.34

Format: 413 pages,

When Hapthorn is hired by Lord Afre to investigate the motives of his daughter's new companion, a y… read more

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Cover of A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Seelye

27. A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

By: Edgar Rice Burroughs , John Seelye

3.81

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

A Princess of Mars is the first of eleven thrilling novels that comprise Edgar Rice Burroughs' most… read more

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  • science fiction
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"Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she."

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

"Day had now given away to night and as we wandered along the great avenue lighted by the two moons of Barsoom, and with Earth looking down upon us out of her luminous green eye, it seemed that we wer…"

-Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1)

Cover of The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5) by Nghi Vo

28. The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

By: Nghi Vo

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

The Hugo Award-Winning Series returns with its newest standalone entry: a gothic mystery involving … read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"The world starts with a story. So do dynasties and eras and wars. So does love, and so does revenge. Everything starts with a story."

-Nghi Vo, The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Cover of The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3) by Richard  Swan

29. The Trials of Empire (Empire of the Wolf, #3)

By: Richard Swan

4.11

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The third novel in an epic fantasy trilogy, which follows the tale of Sir Konrad Vonvalt, an Empero… read more

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Cover of The Broken Sword by Poul Anderson

30. The Broken Sword

By: Poul Anderson

3.86

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Thor broke the sword Tyrfing to save the roots of Yggdrasil, the tree that binds earth, heaven and … read more

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"Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itse…"

-Poul Anderson, The Broken Sword

Cover of His Black Tongue by Mitchell Lüthi

31. His Black Tongue

By: Mitchell Lüthi

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no plague in Enfaire… Dead things have been found in the fields of Enfaire, a God-feari… read more

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4.18

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