Editing Dying Earth (section)

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[[Gene Wolfe]]'s ''[[The Book of the New Sun]]'' (1980–83) is set in a slightly similar world, and was written under Vance's influence. Wolfe suggested in ''[[The Castle of the Otter]]'', a collection of essays, that he inserted the book ''The Dying Earth'' into his fictional world under the title ''The Book of Gold'' (specifically, Wolfe wrote that the "Book of Gold" mentioned in ''The Book of the New Sun'' is different for each reader, but for him it was "The Dying Earth").{{page needed |date=June 2012}} Wolfe has extended the series.<ref>{{isfdb series | |Solar Cycle}}. 2012-.</ref>

[[Michael Shea (author)|Michael Shea]]'s novel ''Nifft the Lean'' (1982), his second book eight years after ''A Quest for Simbilis'', also owes much debt to Vance's creation, since the protagonist of the story is a petty thief (not unlike Cugel the Clever), who travels and struggles in an exotic world. Shea returned to Nifft with 1997 and 2000 sequels.<ref>{{isfdb series |722 |Nifft}}. 2012-.</ref>

The Archonate stories by [[Matt Hughes (writer)|Matthew Hughes]] — the 1994 novel ''Fools Errant'' and numerous works in this millennium<ref>{{isfdb series |12506 |Archonate Universe}}. 2012-.</ref> —
take place in "the penultimate age of Old Earth," a period of science and technology that is on the verge of transforming into the magical era of the time of the Dying Earth.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}}
Booklist has called him Vance's "heir apparent." (Review by Carl Hays of The Gist Hunter and Other Stories, Booklist, August 2005)<!-- this sentence copied from our article on Hughes -->