The Dying Earth

There's no doubt Mr. Vance can write good tales on par with classic Mallory or Tolkein. Although I struggled with the overall novel since each chatper is a short story set within the same overall context, it was the writing style that kept me going to the end. As a novel it is clear this is not the end of the tale and the stories will be concluded in later books.

I think this got a Hugo mainly becuase of the original writing style and if you treat this book as a collection of short stories you will not be disappointed.