I think the author alludes to Vance when she writes: > The dying-earth genre didn’t vanish on the spot, but it transformed into a stock setting for sword-and-s

I think the author alludes to Vance when she writes: > The dying-earth genre didn’t vanish on the spot, but it transformed into a stock setting for sword-and-sorcery stories set in the far future where modern civilization’s technology has long since been lost which for me is a fair characterization of Vance although not of Wolfe who's Book of the New Sun while having these undertones is much more complex and could be said to transform the setting into something different altogether.