The novel “The Dying Earth”, also known as “Mazirian the Magician”, by Jack Vance was published for the first time as a book in 1950 after the stories that compose it were previously published in a magazine. It’s the first novel of the cycle of the Dying Earth. In 2001 it was a finalist for the Retro Hugo Award, the retroactive version of the Hugo Award that considers fifty years old stories, as the best novel of the year.