Frying Earth

[jamesovei]

Providing I don't just give in and kill myself (why will wait until tomorrow, maybe), I've been trying to make a list of books, stories, and whatnot that would fit either in the same subgenre of sf as Vance's The Dying Earth stories or humanity on Earth near the end of the system for reasons

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[nojay]

Shouldn't that be "The Night Lands" by William Hope Hodgson? (Re-read it recently, the spanking scenes didn't register the first time...) John C. Wright has written something recently in that setting but it's by John C. Wright so I haven't read it, not surprisingly. Good reviews though although the amount of spanking is not mentioned.

Moorcock did some other stories outside the Dancers sequence about a dying earth such as The Ice Schooner but it's not set in Deep Time.

[jamesovei]

While I had heard of The Night Land, I hadn't read it nor heard what it was about, so I didn't know it one I wanted.

The house in The House on the Borderlands exists in the far future, as well. That is, after you enter, it's both now and then.

John C. Wright's fiction didn't work for me before he annoyed me. He lost his chance, now.

[nojay]

Ah, "The Night Land" is definitely a Deep Time Earth. The introduction is strangely set in Victorian England for reasons but it can be skipped past quite quickly.

[nojay]

Did a little digging, and Moorcock wrote a couple of dying-Earth short stories for New Worlds collected in The Time Dweller.

[dawaioser]

Please don't kill yourself. I'm just saying this in case you aren't being a smartass with a dark sense of humor and truly mean to harm yourself. ❤️

[jamesovei]

While I am a smartass with a dark sense of humor, thoughts of suicide were very close at hand yesterday.

[dawaioser]

🌺✨❤️✨🌺 Hang in there.