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Dying Earth (subgenre) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchFantasyFantasy mediaFantastic artFantasy animeFantasy artFantasy artistsFantasy authorsFantasy comicsFantasy fiction magazineFantasy filmsFantasy literatureFantasy televisionFantasy webcomicsGenre studiesHistory of fantasySources of fantasyFantasy subgenresFantasticFantastiqueFantasy tropesand conventionsQuestsMagic itemsFantasy racesFantasy worldsLegendary creaturesLovecraftianismMagicianMagicReligious themesTolkienologyCategoriesFantasyFantasy awardsFantasy subgenresFantasy televisionFantasy tropesThis box: view? talk? editThe Dying Earth subgenre is a sub-category of science fantasy which takes place either at the end of life on Earth or the End of Time, when the laws of the universe themselves fail. More generally, the Dying Earth sub-genre encompasses science fiction works set in the far distant future in a milieu of stasis or decline. [citation needed] Themes of world-weariness, innocence (wounded or otherwise), idealism, entropy, nike air max ltd 2, (permanent) exhaustion / depletion of many or all resources (such as soil nutrients), nike shoes, and the hope of renewal tend to pre-dominate. [citation needed] Contents1 Genre2 Examples3 See also4 References5 External links [edit] GenreThe apocalyptic sub-genre is nearly as old as literature itself. The Dying Earth genre differs in that it deals not with catastrophic destruction, but with entropic exhaustion of the Earth. The genre was prefigured by the works of the Romantic movement. Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville Le Dernier Homme (1805) narrates the tale of Omegare, the Last Man on Earth. It is a bleak vision of the future when the Earth has become totally sterile. Lord Byron poem “Darkness” (1816) shows Earth after the Sun has died. Mary Shelley novel The Last Man shows mankind dying out because of a plague.The first known science fiction work to utilize the familiar Dying Earth imagery was HG Wells famous novella “The Time Machine” (1895). [citation needed ] At the end of this work, the unnamed time traveller travels into the far future where there are only a few living things on a dying Earth. He then returns to his own time to relate his tale to a circle of contemporaries.Two brooding works by William Hope Hodgson would elaborate on Wells vision. The House on the Borderland (1908) takes place in a house besieged by unearthly forces. The narrator then travels (without explanation and perhaps psychically) into a distant future in which humanity has died and then even further, past the death of Earth. Hodgson later The Night Land (1912) describes a time, millions of years in the future, when the Sun had gone dark. The last few millions of the human race are gathered together in a gigantic metal pyramid, the Last Redoubt (probably the first arcology in literature) under siege from unknown forces and Powers outside in the dark.Cover of a paperback edition of Jack Vance seminal workFrom the 1930s onwards, Clark Ashton Smith wrote a series of stories situated in Zothique, the last continent of Earth. Smith said in a letter to L. Sprague de Camp, dated November 3, 1953: “Zothique, vaguely suggested by Theosophic theories about past and future continents, is the last inhabited continent of earth. The continents of our present cycle have sunken, perhaps several times. Some have remained submerged; others have re-risen, partially, and re-arranged themselves .[...] The science and machinery of our present civilization have long been forgotten, together with our present religions. But many gods are worshipped; and sorcery and demonism prevail again as in ancient days. Oars and sails alone are used by mariners. There are no fire-arms-only the bows, arrows, swords, javelins, etc. of antiquity. “Although not technically set on a dying Earth, many of the sword and planet stories of the early twentieth century set on Mars, most notably Edgar Rice Burroughs Barsoom series and works influenced by it, such as the Eric John Stark stories of Leigh Brackett and CL Moore series focusing on Northwest Smith, shared similarities with the genre. In these stories, ancient and exotic Martian (or other) civilizations had undergone a decadent decline, enlivened by the presence of demonic adversaries from past ages. The fact that scientists had seriously speculated that Mars had once borne life, which had by the present almost or, perhaps entirely, died out, gave a special entropic kick to these escapist adventures.Under the influence of Smith, Jack Vance wrote the short story collection The Dying Earth. The collection would have several sequels. These works gave the sub-genre its name. [1] [edit] ExamplesBrian Aldiss – Hothouse (also known as The Long Afternoon of Earth). The Earth has stopped rotating, nike air max, the Sun has increased output, and plants are engaged in a constant frenzy of growth and decay, like a tropical forest enhanced a thousandfold; a few small groups of humans still live, on the edge of extinction, beneath the giant banyan tree that covers the entire day side of the earth.Greg Bear, City at the End of Time (2008), a novel that is a homage to William Hope Hodgson The Night Land.Damien Broderick, ed. – Earth is But a Star: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future, an anthology of canonical dying Earth short stories mostly set on Earth in the far future, interwoven with specially commissioned critical essays on the dying Earth theme.John Brunner, Catch a Falling Star, an extended version of The 100th Millennium, first published as “Earth is But a Star” (1958) which features in the Broderick anthology, above. An early example of a far future tale influenced by Vance.CJ Cherryh – Sunfall, a collection of short stories set in various locations on Earth in the far future. The tone, themes and fantasy conventions employed in this collection differ by story. (THese were reprinted in The Collected Short Fiction of CJ Cherryh). Arthur C. Clarke – The City and the Stars, a revision and expansion of the earlier novella “Against the Fall of Night”. Philip Jose Farmer – In Dark Is the Sun a tribesman from the distant future quests across the landscape of a dying earth. As with much of “Dying Earth” science fiction, this text ruminates on the nature of ending, and the meaning of time itself.Edmond Hamilton – The City at World End (1951) and the comic book story “Superman Under the Red Sun” from Action Comics # 300 (1963). M. John Harrison – a series of short stories and novels set in Viriconium. Viriconium is the capital city in which much of the action takes place. Viriconium lies on a dying Earth littered with the detritus of the millennia, seemingly now its own hermetic universe where chronology no longer applies. [2] Michael Moorcock – The Dancers at the End of Time series. [3] Gene Wolfe – The Book of the New Sun chronicles the journey of a disgraced torturer named Severian to the highest position in the land. Severian, nike air max 2009 , who has a perfect memory, tells the story in first person. The Book takes place in the distant future, where the sun has dimmed considerably. [4] Wolfe has stated that Vance series directly influenced this work. The Book has several associated volumes . HP Lovecraft and Robert H. Barlow – ” ill All The Seas” (published posthumously, copyright 1970 by August Derleth) is a tale of the slow fading of human civilization and the extinction of all life on Earth, as the planet became a desert under the sun that has expanded into a red giant. The story centers on a male protagonist named Ull, the last of his tribe, shox, and his journey across lands and abandoned cities in hopes of finding water, shelter and other survivors. But all he finds is desolation and death. (Lovecraft may not have done more than make a note on this story.) [edit] See alsoApocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction [edit] References ^ The Dying EarthClassic Book ReviewsSCI FI Weekly ^ M John Harrison : The Centauri Device and Viriconium – an infinity plus double review ^ The SF Site Featured Review: The Dancers at the End of Time ^ Lupine Nuncio – Gene Wolfe News and Rumors [edit] External linksThe Eldritch Dark – This website contains almost all of Clark Ashton Smith written work, as well as a comprehensive selection of his art, biographies, a bibliography, a discussion board, readings, fiction tributes and more.The Night Land-A website about “The Night Land” by William Hope Hodgson, includes also original fiction set in his universe, with influences of Cordwainer Smith and others Dying Earth authors.v? d? eScience fictionMediaAnime and manga? Comics? Films (list)? Magazines? Novels (list)? Opera? Television (list? sitcoms)? Video gamesCreatorsArtists (list)? Authors? EditorsSubgenresHard? Soft? Alternate history? Apocalyptic? Christian? 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