You can't have an article about the dying Earth genre and not mention The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. The novel is deep and mysterious, involving — amon

You can't have an article about the dying Earth genre and not mention The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. The novel is deep and mysterious, involving — among many other things — a far-future Earth in which aliens have placed a black hole inside the sun. It's one of those books whose true meaning and cryptic clues are mined endlessly on mailing lists, forums, and podcasts (there are at least four that cover this book).