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Book Review of Tales of the Dying Earth (aka The Compleat Dying Earth)

Tales of the Dying Earth (aka The Compleat Dying Earth)
Rotaidalg avatar reviewed Strange... on
Helpful Score: 3


Reads a lot like Norse mythology - stories of Loki and such. Protagonists - not heroes - not even likable protagonists!
In this "Dying Earth" Magic is real - it's all very grim.
Short vignettes and stories made it more readable till I got accustomed to the "style" and content of the book - definitely not a "hard-core" SF, Techno or Post-apocalyptic type of world - just very strange and quirky. It intrigued me enough to keep at it till the whole thing was completed.