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Majestrum (Henghis Hapthorn #1)

Matthew Hughes

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Oct 29, 2016 Derek rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: dying-earth, imbibition-of-vance

This reader is burdened by headcanon regarding Vance's Dying Earth: that the age of magic is a senescence, that the state of affairs is a decay from magnificence and the inhabitants' mystical and partial understanding of the remnants of learning is a matter of dissipation and decadence. They are unable to muster the fortitude and resources to truly understand the accumulated artifacts and "spells" left from earlier and more dynamic ages.

Hughes takes a broader and incompatible view, that the swin ...more

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Jul 04, 2019 Jon rated it it was amazing

Fantastic! Matthew Hughes' writing is excellent, witty, and wonderfully satirical. At the same time, his stories and novels are well-plotted, with interesting characters and a bewitching universe of far-future machinations, intrigues, and mysteries!

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