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Songs of the Dying Earth
2009 collection of fiction and essays edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance is a collection of short fiction and shorter essays composed in appreciation of the science fiction and fantasy author Jack Vance, especially his Dying Earth series. Edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, it was published in 2009 by Subterranean Press.[1]
Twenty-two authors contributed short fiction and an Afterword, about thirty pages on average. Fifteen of the stories are novelettes (7500 to 17,500 words), six are shorter, and The Guiding Nose of Ulfänt Banderōz by Dan Simmons is a novella highlighted on the cover of the second U.S. edition.[2]
As of May 2012[update] there have been British (Harper) and American (Tor) hardcover and trade paperback editions, an American audio edition, and two numbers of an Italian-language serialization.[1]