Green Magic - Jack Vance
A short story collection from Underwood Miller with some of his best short fiction in it. Cover art by George Barr. All the stories have a b&w drawing by a different artist to illustrate them.
I only read a couple of the stories in it this time around - The Mitr and The Narrow Land.
The Mitr is a short, sad little story about a human baby growing up all alone stranded on an alien planet and The Narrow Land is a longer piece about a strange, reptilian society and one little youngling growing up and discovering just how different he is.
Much better than I remember it as being.
Forward by Poul Anderson
Intro by John Shirley
Green Magic - after learning all about black magic and white magic, there's green magic! And purple, iirc, but that doesn't get mentioned much.
The Miracle Workers - on a long-forgotten colony planet, a technology sufficiently old is perceived as magic, but Sam Salazar has a few ideas about it
The Moon Moth - On Sirene everyone wears a mask (or several), making finding a killer almost impossible for the new visitor from Earth
The Mitr - a shipwrecked baby grows up on an alien planet... sometimes she talks to the native giant beetles, sometimes she draws with a stick on the beach
The Men Return - Earth passes through a pocket of non-causality! Chaos! Disorder! Nothing is the same again...
The Narrow Land - little Ern grows up as an outsider until he finally meets Mazur the Final and together spark hope for their kind
The Pilgrims - one of the chapters of The Eyes of the Overworld. Cugel cons some pilgrims he's been traveling with to aid his journey across a desert...
The Secret - Death isn't another country, it's another island!
Liane the Wayfarer - this is also known as Chun the Unavoidable. One of the sections of The Dying Earth.
Green Magic - Jack Vance
A short story collection from Underwood Miller with some of his best short fiction in it. Cover art by George Barr. All the stories have a b&w drawing by a different artist to illustrate them.
I only read a couple of the stories in it this time around - The Mitr and The Narrow Land.
The Mitr is a short, sad little story about a human baby growing up all alone stranded on an alien planet and The Narrow Land is a longer piece about a strange, reptilian society and one little youngling growing up and discovering just how different he is.
Much better than I remember it as being.
Forward by Poul Anderson
Intro by John Shirley
Green Magic - after learning all about black magic and white magic, there's green magic! And purple, iirc, but that doesn't get mentioned much.
The Miracle Workers - on a long-forgotten colony planet, a technology sufficiently old is perceived as magic, but Sam Salazar has a few ideas about it
The Moon Moth - On Sirene everyone wears a mask (or several), making finding a killer almost impossible for the new visitor from Earth
The Mitr - a shipwrecked baby grows up on an alien planet... sometimes she talks to the native giant beetles, sometimes she draws with a stick on the beach
The Men Return - Earth passes through a pocket of non-causality! Chaos! Disorder! Nothing is the same again...
The Narrow Land - little Ern grows up as an outsider until he finally meets Mazur the Final and together spark hope for their kind
The Pilgrims - one of the chapters of The Eyes of the Overworld. Cugel cons some pilgrims he's been traveling with to aid his journey across a desert...
The Secret - Death isn't another country, it's another island!
Liane the Wayfarer - this is also known as Chun the Unavoidable. One of the sections of The Dying Earth.