ECHAEA · @Teratogenese
130 followers · 2148 posts · Server mamot.fr

Dans la même veine, je vous recommande chaudement "Un Tour en Thaëry, également de !
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.

#jackvance

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
161 followers · 139 posts · Server dice.camp

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

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.

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #jackvance #DyingEarth #swordandsorcery

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hcv13 · @hcv13
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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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vitreous - like glass in appearance or physical properties; (of a substance) derived from or containing glass

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.

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #DyingEarth #jackvance #sffbookclub #sff

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Wombat Radio - Rss Bot · @wombat
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Le porte di Tannhäuser #8 radiowombat.net/le-porte-di-ta -Gianni.MichaelMoorcock-Uncantantemorto -Eclipse-UnacanzonechiamataGiovinezza -CantidiHyperion"Hyperion" -Lamacchinadeljazz .Clarke-Ritmoassoluto -L’operadellospazio -Gianni

#robertsilverberg #johnshirley #dansimmons #richardmatheson #arthurc #jackvance #LeportediTannhauser #XPianetasinfonico #senzacategoria #JGBallard #pkdick

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Jake Mix · @jakemix
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cozen - gain by deception; to trick or deceive

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

#appendixnlocutionoftheday #AppendixN #DyingEarth #jackvance #lianethewayfarer

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Ten Thousand Worlds · @tenthousandworlds
122 followers · 1084 posts · Server wandering.shop

@Binder

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

#dnd #ttrpg #jackvance

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

Wow! What an incredibly produced for ! Inspired by the of , comes these gorgeous , 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 to me makes it so much more special!

#boxedset #dccrpg #fiction #jackvance #books #AppendixN #literature #osr #pulpfantasy #fantasy #DnD #ttrpg

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Mike Taylor Lives · @anastas2002
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Mike Taylor Lives · @anastas2002
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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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Ten Thousand Worlds · @tenthousandworlds
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The magic rules for the , including titles of specific spells & the syntax for naming magic items.

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

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.

#dnd #ttrpg #gameofthrones #thedyingearth #jackvance #audiobook #book

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Ten Thousand Worlds · @tenthousandworlds
111 followers · 935 posts · Server wandering.shop

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

#sff #thedyingearth #jackvance #audiobook #book

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

@sciencefiction

#finlayfriday #virgilfinlay #jackvance #illustration #penandink #pulps #weirdtales #sciencefiction #sf #sff

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Colin Anders Brodd · @ColinAndersBrodd
138 followers · 377 posts · Server dice.camp

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

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Edward Champion · @edwardchampion
632 followers · 947 posts · Server universeodon.com

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

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Edward Champion · @edwardchampion
631 followers · 927 posts · Server universeodon.com

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

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Moonmoth · @moonmoth
413 followers · 750 posts · Server mastodon.pnpde.social

Man kann sagen was man will, aber bei ihren Crowdfunding-Ausgaben liefern 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… #

#goodmangames #dcc #dccrpg #jackvance #pnpde

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Mike Taylor Lives · @anastas2002
181 followers · 2340 posts · Server dice.camp

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

#til #sff #jackvance

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