The Laughing Magician: The Adventures of Cugel

Dying Earth

The Laughing Magician: The Adventures of Cugel

Jack Vance

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2005

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About the Book

First edition 1997.

Deluxe slipcased edition: Underwood Books, 2005. Illustrated by Stephen Fabian. Limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author.

The Laughing Magician combines two of Vance's popular ”Dying Earth” novels: The Eyes of the Overworld and Cugel the Clever. Both are tales of a charming rascal named Cugel, who is forced on a quest across Earth in a time so remote that the sun itself has grown red and dim.

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Jack Vance

John Holbrook "Jack" Vance (1916–2013) was an American mystery, fantasy and science fiction writer. Though most of his work has been published as by Jack Vance, he also wrote 11 mystery novels using his full name John Holbrook Vance, three under the pseudonym Ellery Queen, and once each using the pseudonyms Alan Wade,…

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