Dying Earth

ITT post some of your favorite works in the genre

I've got a few pics that might fit this category. I will see if I can dig them out later today.

Always weirdly liked the various covers of this book

More "Dying Universe" than "Dying Earth", but Wildstorm Spotlight #1 has the same vibe. It's written by Alan Moore

>>4045 Book of the New Sun The second reading will be the best literary experience of your life.

The Windup Girl

>>4892 I fell for the meme and the book gets very mediocre as soon as Severan leaves the guild.

Real life in maybe 20 years is my favorite dying Earth. j/k kinda. But in all honesty, I kind of loved the movie Sunshine. Had a really nice atmosphere. But of course they eventually ruin it with the stupid space zombie thing. If they just could have resisted trying to put a monster in the movie it would have been 100x better. Not really a spoiler because it already spoils the movie by being in it. Also they never managed to release the clean soundtrack, which is a travesty. Stupid IP law ruins everything. The movie Hardware is also rad. Got the frontman of Fields of the Nephilim as a wasteland wanderer. Fuсk yeah dude.

>>4899 Why do you think that? I thought it got better. The but in the guild was just to set the stage, it is once he leaves it that the story starts developing.

>>4045 >Cormac Macathy - "The Road" Do you want to read the nihilistic adventure of a man and his son as they travel across the land searching far and wide in a wasteland United States filled with chaotic renditions of all the nostalgic landmarks and things that once defined "Americana?" If so, then this book is for you. >The Maddaddam Trilogy Atwood writes an interesting story about a supervirus destroying mankind, book 1 follows two teens and their adventures in the darkweb and the consequences of their actions, book 2 is about a bunch of green party Luddites living in a cyberpunk world, and book 3 expands the lore of the stories. The entire series focuses different characters in roughly the same town and their interactions with corporate takeovers of society, biohacking, gene modification, rampant consumerism and environmental destruction. >Alas Babylon Wish I could say more about this book, but I read this around 20 years ago and I do not remember much, basically a story about WW3 happening with nukes during the cold war IIRC >The Machine Stops A short story about the redemption of man (and the destruction of advanced civilization) that deals with the blackboxing of all of society and how complex systems with no understanding by its users will lead to a consumer lifestyle that will consume mankind. >I have no mouth and I must scream A GREAT SHORT STORY >Shōjo Shūmatsu Ryokō (manga) The comfiest of moe potatoes and their adventures as the last humans on a dying world to be honest this one has a lot of feels

>>4892 >The second reading will be the best literary experience of your life. I recently finished Urth, maybe I'll go back and reread after Dune. How are the Long/Short Sun series?

>>4045 Does "dying civilization" count? If so, I'd nominate the Foundation trilogy.

the film Southland Tales is pretty horrific

>>4920 Shoujo Shūmatsu Ryokō is great, truly beautiful.

>>4892 I read the first book, thought it was terrible, didn't pick up the second one. Years later re-read the first book, and strangely, enjoyed it somewhat, then moved on to the second book, and again didn't enjoy it at all. What is it about BOTNS that requires the second reading?

>>5643 Damn, I wish that I could finger the girl on the right.

>>4915 My issue is how all over the place the story gets, not to mention the weird interaction with the characters that contrasts the way the guild setting was written. The part with the street-performers and the duel and so on was too weird considering Severan was on a completely unrelated mission. I liked it but it felt like it tried too hard.

The Night Land, William Hope Hodgson The Dancers at the End of Time, Michael Moorcock Hothouse, Brian Aldiss Giant of World's End, Lin Carter The Last Question, Isaac Asimov A World Out of Time, Larry Niven The Time Machine, H. G. Wells A Pail of Air, Fritz Leiber The Dark Tower, Stephen King

>>6212 >Brian Aldiss All of his works in some way deal with the inexorable crushing effects of time and humans' inability to cope, whether on an individual scale or as communities. He wrote a book called Greybeard which features the same crisis as Children of Men only further on; what happens when women around the globe can't make babies anymore, only the youngest people aren't 18-20 at this point but in their 50s. A lot of zombie and apocalypse survival fiction around these days reminds me of Greybeard actually though it's smarter than most of that stuff.

Everyone gives this soykaf for being Clarke's first novel and him not knowing all the pro tricks for storywriting at that point, but I love it regardless.

>>4045 Best Dying Earth is Tales of the Dying Earth by Vance. The Elric novels/novellas evoke similar atmosphere but don't really count as being in the genre.

>>5676 That's Arcadia Darell, She's 14.

>>6218 I thought I was familiar with Clarke's work, but I admit I've never heard of this one before. I hadn't realized that "The City and the Stars" was a basically a rewrite of this earlier work. I loved Clarke as a kid, but honestly I find it difficult to go back and re-read his work now. The characters are rarely fleshed out and are often outright one-dimensional, and the miraculous technologies depicted have either come to pass and not solved a thing, or been shown to be physically impossible.

>>6327 Actually it's a painting and she looks 20 in it.

>>6332 I read Against the Fall of Night as well when I was about 10, and you might be right about character development. At that age though I just self-inserted with the main character so I never noticed. I think I felt similarly, alone though not literally alone, something like that.

>>6340 How do these fit into the Dying Earth subgenre? I've read Red Mars and don't see it at all.

>>6340 I loved these books, until the last half of Blue Mars. It got really boring when he started focusing so much on that bitchy woman and her stupid therapist. >>6351 The second two introduce a lot more about Earth. I don't want to spoil anything, but it gets pretty fuarrrked.

>>6340 I've read this trilogy about four times and I'm currently on Green Mars. I always enjoy the dying earth vs struggling mars aspect of the books.

>>5643 seriously the best books i've ever read.

>Nier : Automata (I haven't played the first game so i dont know if it has similar themes or is related) but basically humanity got fuarrrking double teamed by a combination of a freak virus that straight up turns you into salt like its sodom and Gomorrah and an alien invasion. Humanity and said aliens smashed against each other until both ended up dying off leaving the robots they used to do most of the fighting to duke it out forever over whats left of earth.

>>6442 Wait im a fuarrrking retard thats a video game i didn't realise this was about books...

I read this cover to cover yesterday, first time I've done that since I was a teenager, really really good and has a very well developed premise for it.

Ever read the Viriconium series? It is a little light on the dying earth aspect but the second one, Storm of Wings, is probably my favorite fantasy novel of all time.