This book is a fantasy novel by Jack Vance - the first of a series, though I've only found a copy of this first one so far. I was somewhat skeptical of it for the first few pages but Jack writes with an elegant, poetic simplicity that paints the fantastical futurescape of our old old world with a breathtaking colourfulness, darkness and depth - the stories contained in this volume feel like they could have dropped straight out of ancient myths from a bleak, real time, and are utterly captivating. And there's not much more you can ask of a fantasy story, is there? Will definitely be checking out more of his stuff - especially since recently also having discovered that Vance's conceptualized systems of magic literally formed the groundwork for that used in the Dungeons & Dragons world-lore, which is a hell of a claim to fame impact-wise.
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