/lit/ - Literature

>>8473314

The original "The Dying Earth" stories--"Guyal of Sfere", "Turjan of Muir", etc.--are very different from his later work. I don't really care much for these other than it's interesting to see his progression from writing these during WWII while in the merchant marine to his later, better work. Still, these stories are what made his bones.

>>8473322

>Even looking back, thinking about something/someone like "Chun the Unavoidable" is almost funny, but at the time of reading it was terrifying.

The contrast between "Guyal of Sfere" and "Liane the Wayfarer" is startling. "Guyal" has arguably his worst lines:

>Shierl gazed at him with a marveling expression, and Guyal's soul throbbed
with love.
>She felt him quiver and whispered recklessly, "Guyal of Sfere, I am
yours, I melt for you..."

while "Liane" is as solid as anything he writes in Lyonesse, which was written roughly 40 years later.