#dyingearth — Public Fediverse posts

I am currently reading "Fools Errant" by Matthew Hughes, a work set in the Dying Earth and deliberately imitative of Vance's style.

There's a great magic item: a cloak of invisibility that emits a staggeringly foul stench. It's a clever drawback that I hadn't thought of before.

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Short post. Must revisit later.

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Finally finished Jack Vance's Dying Earth series. I liked how ridiculous a lot of the problems the characters faced were, like men being turned into women in Rhialto the Marvelous, and the flowery and dramatic language of such terms as "pangynic nightmare".

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Researchers issue warning after data shows record-breaking increase in air pollution levels: 'It's sad what we are doing'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/researchers-issue-warning-data-shows-050000363.html
#airpollution #pollution #airquality #air #breathing #climatechange #exhaust #smokestack #poison #dyingearth

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#AlastairReynolds' #RevelationSpace universe might perhaps fit in the #DyingEarth sub-genre.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation_Space_series