The Dying Earth

This writing feels just a little better then 15th-century Le Morte d'Arthur. It's unnecessary “disconnected”(?). The first reviewer says it best: is grandiloquent and eccentric, harsh and grating, and crammed full of hard words”

This is an awful book, for me at least. If I were to try to give it a compliment, it is as bad as Shakespeare or some other book of these kind. It is highly regarded though, as it is the book who influenced D&D's magic system.

So there is 100 spells left in the world, there is just a handful of wizards left. They are all very powerful, and seek knowledge.

The first tale of the book is a very short story of one of these wizards on a quest for another wizard, in order to gain the knowledge of one of his spells. He can create like and give it intelligence. Or some at least.

Naturally, these wizards all want to create women to “make them company”, and they basically don't care that they are brain dead.

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