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360:Dying Earth
238:Dying Earth
134:August 1984
87:Dying Earth
44:Illustrator
1409:Categories
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1160:Night Lamp
1132:Bad Ronald
1054:Big Planet
896:The Asutra
853:The Dirdir
700:Jack Vance
656:Jack Vance
629:2008-02-04
577:References
502:Panderleou
422:Dulce-Lolo
390:Barbanikos
320:Characters
293:"Morreion"
263:"Foreword"
251:Lin Carter
229:Jack Vance
117:Baen Books
38:Jack Vance
1317:Rumfuddle
882:The Anome
860:The Pnume
789:Star King
522:diabolist
510:Perdustin
470:Hurtiancz
373:Ildefonse
107:Publisher
1365:See also
1125:Emphyrio
944:Lyonesse
810:The Face
570:Zilifant
530:Tchamast
478:Morreion
343:cycles.
302:Editions
259:(1973).
245:Contents
198:11554599
75:Language
908:Alastor
872:Durdane
750:related
658:at the
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430:Eshmiel
402:Necrope
341:Rhialto
225:fantasy
177:(first)
97:Fantasy
78:English
1029:Lurulu
968:Madouc
538:Teutch
438:Gilgad
398:Byzant
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83:Series
34:Author
1331:Telek
1310:Noise
1002:Throy
696:Works
518:Shrue
365:dandy
336:Cugel
327:genie
233:below
161:Pages
93:Genre
1372:Grue
520:, a
400:the
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192:OCLC
180:ISBN
170:ISBN
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