Dans la même veine, je vous recommande chaudement "Un Tour en Thaëry, également de #JackVance !
Le récit d'une quête absurde qui nous emmène d'un état à l'autre d'une petite planète, d'un système politique à l'autre, le tout dépeint avec minutie et efficacité.

pennon - long triangular or swallow-tailed flag, especially one of a kind formerly attached to a lance or helmet; a pennant

#AppendixNLocutionOfTheDay from Jack Vance's short story Mazirian the Magician. As the eponymous wizard pursues T'Sain from his gardens, her hair flows behind her like a flag.

#AppendixN #JackVance #DyingEarth #SwordAndSorcery

#Hilo #CienciaFicción #ObraLiteraria #JackVance #AdamReith

1. Los Chasch - Jack Vance

DD: https://ww2.ebookelo.com/download/5015/epub

https://ww2.ebookelo.com/download/5015/pdf

vitreous - like glass in appearance or physical properties; (of a substance) derived from or containing glass

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Vance's The Dying Earth. In the dome at the top of the Tower of Fate, Ulan Dohr and Elai find a black and vitreous cylinder sitting on a pedestal.

#appendixn #dyingearth #jackvance #sffbookclub #sff

Le porte di Tannhäuser #8 https://radiowombat.net/le-porte-di-tannhauser-8/ #RobertSilverberg-Gianni.MichaelMoorcock-Uncantantemorto #JohnShirley-Eclipse-UnacanzonechiamataGiovinezza #DanSimmons-CantidiHyperion"Hyperion" #RichardMatheson-Lamacchinadeljazz #ArthurC.Clarke-Ritmoassoluto #JackVance-L’operadellospazio #RobertSilverberg-Gianni #LeportediTannhauser #XPianetasinfonico #Senzacategoria #JGBallard #PKDick

cozen - gain by deception; to trick or deceive

#appendixnlocutionoftheday from Vance's The Dying Earth. Liane the Wayfarer attempts to steal a ball of pure crystal in a tavern full of sorcerers.

#appendixn #dyingearth #jackvance #lianethewayfarer

@Binder

Between character class features like spell slots, and spells with names such as “Prismatic Spray”, I’d always figured #DnD first edition already was a #TTRPG adaptation of the #JackVance stories.

Perhaps things like its “grudge” rule, and the absence of any non-Vance stuff might make this game more appealing than D&D to Jack Vance fans.

DCCRPG - DYING EARTH - Adventures in a Doomed World
Published by @goodmangames

Wow! What an incredibly produced #BoxedSet for #DCCRPG! Inspired by the #Fiction of #JackVance, comes these gorgeous #Books, with a lot of cool stuff for you to use in your games. Dying Earth is an incredible setting, and having the opportunity to explore it with the system that really introduced the #AppendixN #Literature to me makes it so much more special!

#OSR #PulpFantasy #Fantasy #DnD #TTRPG

Here's a scan of the cover for #PilgrimsOfTheBlackObelisk. The art is by #ErolOtus himself.

#DCC #DungeonCrawlClassics #MutantCrawlClassics #AppendixN #JackVance #DyingEarth #TTRPG #RPG

Sighted at my #FLGS. #JackVance #DyingEarth #DungeonCrawlClassics #DCC #GoodmanGames #AppendixN #FortMyersFL #DungeonGames #TTRPG #RPG

#10yrsago Legal analysis of the conclusion to #DarkKnightRises http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2013/05/27/guest-post-end-dark-knight-rises/

#10yrsago Singapore to individually license websites, require a $50K bond against bad taste https://web.archive.org/web/20130607052042/https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/news-websites-to-be-individually-license/690226.html

#10yrsago Canadian PM #StevenHarper mercilessly grilled over corruption in his office, senate, government and party https://www.joeydevilla.com/2013/05/29/in-which-thomas-mulcair-takes-the-prime-minister-behind-the-shed-for-a-much-needed-spanking/

#10yrsago RIP, #JackVance https://www.jackvance.com/jackvance_05262013/

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The magic rules for the #DnD #TTRPG, including titles of specific spells & the syntax for naming magic items.

The "biggest jerk wins" mentality found in works such as #GameOfThrones.

The formal cadence & somewhat stilted style of speech used in countless TV shows to indicate that a speaker is alien, or not from the here and now.

#TheDyingEarth #JackVance #AudioBook #Book

Despite my wanting to punch most of the stories' protagonists, & the reinforcement of my conviction that some elements of beloved #SFF classics are best left in the past, it was worth diving into these stories just to see the origins of so much modern geekery:

#TheDyingEarth #JackVance #AudioBook #Book

Virgil Finlay interior illustration for "Abercrombie Station" by Jack Vance from Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1952.

#FinlayFriday #VirgilFinlay #JackVance #Illustration #PenandInk #Pulps #WeirdTales #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction

Finally! Despite shipping delays and such, the DCC Dying Earth Kickstarter set has ARRIVED! And it is GORGEOUS - beautiful art, foil printing on covers and boxes, quality product, packed very well (not so much as a nick or scratch on a cover!). Worth every cent! As a fan of Jack Vance's Dying Earth stories for about 30 years or so, this was done RIGHT, and was worth the wait! #DCCRPG #DCC #JackVance #DyingEarth

I cannot properly convey how much fun Jack Vance is. This is a writer who has a witch tempt a king, who then -- under her spell -- attempts to copulate with a leopard and who is then mauled to death in the effort. That's an eccentric but wildly original storytelling move! Honestly, the Lyonesse trilogy is SO underrated.

#jackvance #fantasy #lyonesse

I started Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy and, goodness me, this is wildly entertaining so far. Old World dialogue, brisk plotting, and ridiculously ambitious worldbuilding, complete with intricate family lines and a series of islands known as the Elder Isles, which sunk into the Atlantic Ocean just off the coasts of Britain and Ireland (map pictured below). I know everyone holds up Vance (rightly) for his dying earth idea (notably rifled on by Gene Wolfe in his must-read Sun books). But Vance could write vivaciously in ANY genre. And the Lyonesse books are absolutely the kind of lively fantasy I longer to read right now!

#books #jackvance #lyonesse #fantasy #reading

Man kann sagen was man will, aber bei ihren Crowdfunding-Ausgaben liefern #GoodmanGames einfach unglaublich ab. Sie haben für ihre Stretch Goals eine ZWEITE Box gemacht und es passte immer noch lange nicht alles rein. Und die Folierung!! Es schimmert! Uuund ich bin eh Dying Earth Fan. Später wird ausgepackt… #DCC #DCCRPG #JackVance #PnpDE #

These finally arrived today from #GoodmanGames.

#JackVance #DyingEarth #Kickstarter #DCC #DungeonCrawlClassics #TTRPG #RPG.

#TIL that "deodand" is a real word.

"a thing that by English law before 1846 was forfeited to the crown and thence to pious uses because it had been the immediate cause of the death of a person"

-- Merrian-Webster

#sff #JackVance