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>The wikipedia article on the subgenre is terrible, conflating fin de siecle with Dying Earth. Awful on many levels Welcome to Wikipedia. If you've ever tried

>The wikipedia article on the subgenre is terrible, conflating fin de siecle with Dying Earth. Awful on many levels Welcome to Wikipedia. If you've ever tried to edit something glaringly wrong, even with proof, only to be insta-banned, you get a cookie! This has caused me to lose all trust in Wikipedia, I find I always have to check the sources/revision pages and even then it's just a clusterfuck. If it's wrong about something I know, how much of it is wrong that I've no clue about? Also do you or OP have a list of some of these books? They sound right up my alley.

rendall 5y ago
The classic is Dying Earth by Jack Vance, but my favorite of the series is Eyes of the Overworld, and you'd be fine to read that first since the novels of the series are self-contained. My opinion is that the subgenre should by definition be self-consciously set in that world or something similar, and some of the novels that do that are from Michael Shea: https://goodman-games.com/blog/2021/07/20/the-other-cugels-saga-michael-sheas-a-quest-for-simbilis/ https://goodman-games.com/blog/2021/07/20/the-other-cugels-s... GRRM: https://georgerrmartin.com/grrm_book/songs-of-the-dying-earth/ https://georgerrmartin.com/grrm_book/songs-of-the-dying-eart... Mathew Hewes: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1743870.Majestrum https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1743870.Majestrum I know there are others, but I'd say start with Jack Vance. He's an underrated genius.